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Irwin Edman has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
• God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.
• The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;…
• The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.
• Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to…
• Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…
• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
• Life is always at some turning point.
• Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine

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