The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken
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  2. Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

  3. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.

  4. It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.

  5. A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

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