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" If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. "

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" God doesn't know things. He is things. "

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" Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. "

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" I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. "

" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

" They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. "

" The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. "

" This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. "

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

" California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. "

" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "

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" Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. "