The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

H.L. Mencken

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Artists Originality Middle class respectability

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

Prejudices, First Series

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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Source
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