H. L. Mencken Quotes

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

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• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  

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• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

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• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

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• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

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• A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

  

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• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

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• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

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• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

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• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

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• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

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• Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

  

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• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

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• It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

  

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• If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

  

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