He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
From Sinclair Lewis
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
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