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H. L. Mencken
Age: 75 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 12
Died: 1956
Died: January 29
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.
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The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.
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It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
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There are two kinds of music German music and bad music.
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The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.
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Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
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It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.
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It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.
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There are two impossibilities in life: just one drink and an honest politician.
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.
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Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
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A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
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Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
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