H. L. Mencken Quotes
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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The '70's came and went already.
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Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
