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He described American culture as youthful and innocent, unburdened by calcified traditions.“The American way of laughing does me good,” he wrote after reading Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers, “especially this sort of sturdy seaman like Marc [sic] ...more
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H.L. Mencken
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.”
H.L. Mencken

George Orwell
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
George Orwell, 1984

Hanya Yanagihara
“None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.”
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Zora Neale Hurston
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

H.L. Mencken
“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
H.L. Mencken

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