He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does no
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock- market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of de
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It is ... pathetic to observe the complete lack of imagination on the part of certain employers and men and women of the upper-inc
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It is a good lesson--though it may often be a hard one--for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a ra
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Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of se
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Conscience ... lacks the power to externalize itself, the power to make itself into a Thing, and to endure being. It lives in drea
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If the reviewing of books be ... "an ungentle craft," the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one--and that departme
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable.
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The ungentlemanly expressions and gasconading conduct of yours relative to me yesterday was in true character of yourself and unma
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