The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.
Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.
Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.
