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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called patriotism and love of sport.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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