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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
This Side of Paradise (1920)
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.
This Side of Paradise (1920)
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
This Side of Paradise (1920)
He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it.
This Side of Paradise (1920)
Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter...
And the rain and over the fields a voice calling...
This Side of Paradise (1920)
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
This Side of Paradise (1920)
And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed....
This Side of Paradise (1920)
“The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They’ve seized an idea.”
“What is it?”
“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.”
This Side of Paradise (1920)