I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
UPTON SINCLAIRThrough fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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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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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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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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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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