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"Miss Austen's novels - seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer - is marriageableness."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Nature
"No sensible person ever made an apology."
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"Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."
Nature
"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."
Love
"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."
Courage
"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief."
Philosophy
"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
Future
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
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"Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation."
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"Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!"
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"You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink.'Maybe so,' Frink said."
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"Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian."
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"There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them."
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"What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!"
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"Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors."
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"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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"Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity."
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"Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile."
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