H. L. Mencken Quotes

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

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• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

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• The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

  

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• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

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• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

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• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

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• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

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• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

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• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

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• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

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• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

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• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  

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• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

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• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

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• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

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• By the way, for the kids at home, Santa just is white, but this person is arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa. Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it, kids.

  

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• Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

  

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• If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

  

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• If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

  

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• I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.

  

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• Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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