H. L. Mencken Quotes

The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.

H. L. Mencken

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• I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

  

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• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

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• I'm easily entertained.

  

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• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

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• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

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• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

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• I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

  

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• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

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• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

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• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

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• The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

  

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• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

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• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  

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• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

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• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  

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• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

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• Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

  

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• Her lips were like large crimson polyps.

  

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• I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

  

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• If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

  

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• In the free-to-play industry, the most money-making games are often coming from making people fighting against each other and really hating each other and wanting to revenge, so they spend more money to dominate.

  

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• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  

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• The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth