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To write is a humiliation.

To write is a humiliation.
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I would rather take hellebore

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
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Men are mad most of

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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A strong foe is better

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
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We are always talking about

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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Intellectual sodomy, which comes from

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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Though man is the only

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Genius, like truth, has a

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
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There is a strange and

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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The machine has had a

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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