Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes
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men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
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democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
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There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
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if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.