"To be in love is merely to be……" — H. L. Mencken
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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More Anesthesia Quotes
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In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at…
— Robert Adams
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I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.
— Jon Jones
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In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in…
— Sheila Kitzinger
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I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my…
— Koren Zailckas
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred…
— Jeffrey Bland
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I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state…
— Nick Rhodes
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How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained…
— Katherine Dunn
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I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of…
— John Steinbeck
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Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is…
— Jonathan Hull
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
— George Bernard Shaw
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There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses…
— Caroline Knapp
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