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All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.
So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
He thought of how when you went out and listened to what people said, you heard all kinds of things, people washing their dirty linen in public, talking about friends and business and,gash, and it made him think how the world must be, at every minute, so full of people fighting, and jazzing, and dying, and working, and losing jobs, and it was a funny world, all right, full of funny people, millions of them. And he was only one out of all these millions of people, and they were all trying to get along, and many of them had gotten farther than he.
His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.
Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.
Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.
He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
He took a meditative puff on his stogy, and informed himself that time was a funny thing. Old Man Time just walked along, and he didn't even blow a How-do-you-do through his whiskers. He just walked on past you. Things just change.
He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop.
There was a drugged sanctimoniousness about the sappy-looking birds seated in the lobby. Studs felt that there wasn't a man or a regular guy among them.
He was still where he had always been. Just hoping.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.
