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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
I love America, but I don't like it.
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
People read fiction for emotion-not information
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
You have more people that love you than you know.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.