H L Mencken

The theater. ....

The theater. ....

The theater. . . is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously...

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The idea that...

The idea that...

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. . . . The average man simply spends his...

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The only cure...

The only cure...

The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.

Source: Minority Report: H. L....

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Man is a...

Man is a...

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its...

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God is the...

God is the...

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His...

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All successful newpapers...

All successful newpapers...

All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply...

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What men value...

What men value...

What men value in this world is not rights, but privileges.

Source: Notebook Entry,...

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A nun, at...

A nun, at...

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

Source:...

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Philosophy consists very...

Philosophy consists very...

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I...

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I hate all...

I hate all...

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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We must respect...

We must respect...

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that...

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It is now...

It is now...

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still...

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Government is actually...

Government is actually...

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that...

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The one permanent...

The one permanent...

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear -- fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he...

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No normal man...

No normal man...

No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

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It is hard...

It is hard...

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his...

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The great artists...

The great artists...

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

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It takes a...

It takes a...

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not...

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When one hears...

When one hears...

When one hears of a poet past thirty-five he seems somehow unnatural and obscene.

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