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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
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The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.
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We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
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A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
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I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
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I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
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We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
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It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.
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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
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Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward Dahlberg
Born:
July 22, 1900
Died:
February 27, 1977
(aged 76)
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