Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
UPTON SINCLAIRI just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
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I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
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