Tag: H. L. Mencken
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken
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Every man is his own hell.
H. L. Mencken
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. Mencken
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken