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Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken föddes den 12 September 1880 och dog den 29 Januar 1956 - of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s.
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 The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers |
| The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous |
| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. |
| The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all |
| The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usu |
| The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. |
| Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. |
| Theology-An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing |
| There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. |
| There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner. |
| There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read |
| There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music. |
| There is a bird that knows no closed season - and if he won't come down to Texas oil stock, or one-night cancer cures, or building lots in Swampshurst, he will always come down to Inspiration and Optimism, whether political, theological, pedagogical, |
| There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. |
| There is no record in history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself |
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