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Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 september 1880 och dog den 29 januari 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. |
| It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind |
| It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin |
| It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. |
| It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. |
| It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. |
| It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men. |
| It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. |
| It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents |
| It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. |
| It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs |
| It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry |
| It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely. |
| It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull |
| It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent |
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