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| Quote #1: | "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." |
| Quote #2: | "Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity." |
| Quote #3: | "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." |
| Quote #4: | "Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." |
| Quote #5: | "Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell." |
| Quote #6: | "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." |
| Quote #7: | "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." |
| Quote #8: | "By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece." |
| Quote #9: | "A room without books is like a body without a soul." |
| Quote #10: | "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." |
| Quote #11: | "My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober." |
| Quote #12: | "I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean." |
| Quote #13: | "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." |
| Quote #14: | "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." |
| Quote #15: | "I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it." |
| Quote #16: | "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." |
| Quote #17: | "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." |
| Quote #18: | "The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion." |
| Quote #19: | "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." |
| Quote #20: | "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." |
| Quote #21: | "Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." |
| Quote #22: | "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people." |
| Quote #23: | "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." |
| Quote #24: | "If there were no God, there would be no Atheists." |
| Quote #25: | "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country." |
| Quote #26: | "All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." |
| Quote #27: | "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." |
| Quote #28: | "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." |
| Quote #29: | "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." |
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