"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."
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"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."
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"It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others."
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"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."
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"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."
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"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."
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"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
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"On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had."
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"Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments."
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"In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman."
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"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
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"Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?"
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"A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party."
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"Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth."
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"Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes."
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"Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction."
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"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment."
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"Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer."
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"Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue."
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"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."
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