“ 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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“ The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand lightyears apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. ”
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“ America, like England and Scotland, had never really been a gay nation. Rather it had been heavily and noisily jocular, with a substratum of worry and insecurity, in the image of its patron saint, Lincoln of the rollicking stories and the tragic heart. But at least there had been hearty greetings, man to man; there had been clamorous jazz for dancing, and the lively, slangy catcalls of young people, and the nervous blatting of tremendous traffic. ”
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“ I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies ”
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“ The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand lightyears apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon. ”
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“ It is impossible to discourage the real writers they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ”
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“ It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by "buying his own time on the air"— it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford's early conception of selling cars cheap to millions of people, instead of selling a few as luxuries. ”
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“ There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ”
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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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“ 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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“ There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ”
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“ There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ”
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“ Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ”
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“ Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ”
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“ It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. ”
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“ Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. ”
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