1. The H. L. Mencken Page - A Mencken Cornucopia - Guide To H. L. Mencken Resources Henry Louis Mencken (1880 1956). by Gibbons Burke The most prominentnewspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) by Gibbons Burke T he most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay. M encken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it. The Introduction to The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Collection of His Best Newspaper Stories , edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers which relates Mencken's manner while reporting on the presidential conventions: No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article. A cigar jammed in the side of Mencken's mouth completes the image. Rare is the picture of him without one in a hand, his mouth, or a nearby ashtray. (His father was the owner of Baltimore's Mencken Cigar Company, which provided Mencken his first gainful employment, which he ditched not long after his father's death to become a cub reporter.) Here's Mencken's assessment of life in the United States:

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Quotes From H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. Those who can do. Those who can't teach. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. Nature abhors a moron. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1880-1956) American literary critic, humorous journalist, essayist, whose comic skepticism about human progress, expressed with penetrating style, is a treasure for all interested in extravagant language. Mencken wrote - according to some estimations - 3 000 newspaper columns. During the 15-year period following World War I, Mencken set the standard for satire in his day, and his essays are still widely read. "Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth." (from 'The Libido for the Ugly', 1927) Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His grandfather had prospered in the tobacco business and his father, August, continued the family tradition. Mencken studied at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (1892-96) and then worked at his father's cigar factory. After his father died in 1899, Mencken was free to choose his own trade in the world. "I chose newspaper work without any hesitation whatever, and. save when the scent of a passing garbage-cart has revived my chemical libido, I have never regretted my choice," he later said. He was a reporter or editor for several Baltimore papers, among them Baltimore Morning Herald . He later joined the staff of the

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Henry Louis Mencken Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956. Editor, essayist, and critic. Henry Louis Mencken was a writer of enormous national influence who also played a leading role in southern intellectual life of the 1920s. A native of Baltimore, he became a contributor to the Smart Set and the American Mercury . As such, he was, Walter Lippmann wrote, "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated people." In particular, he conducted a crusade against American provincialism, puritanism, and prudery - all of which he believed he found, to a degree larger than elsewhere, in the states below the Potomac and Ohio. Mencken shocked southerners when he published a severe indictment of southern culture, "The Sahara of the Bozart," which first appeared in 1917 in the New York Evening Mail and was reprinted in his book, Prejudices, Second Series (1920). In his essay he charged that the South was "almost as sterile, artistically, intellectually, culturally, as the Sahara Desert." "In all that gargantuan paradise of the fourth-rate," he contended, "there is not a single picture gallery worth going into, or a single orchestra capable of playing the nine symphonies of Beethoven, or a single opera-house, or a single theater devoted to decent plays." Most southern poetry and prose was drivel, he charged, and "when you come to critics, musical composers, painters, sculptors, architects and the like, you will have to give it up, for there is not even a bad one between the Potomac mud-flats and the Gulf." Nor, Mencken added, a historian, sociologist, philosopher, theologian, or scientist.

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Visit the German Corner Home Page Privacy Statement German Corner Website German-American Mall ... Next Page MENCKEN, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Quotations: Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. H.L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H.L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major Alimony_The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chresto- mathy A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy

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The Mencken Society Home Pa g e Honoring the memory of and promoting the reading of the living works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-12—1956-01-29), the “Sage of Baltimore”, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast. “If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.” —“Epitaph”, Smart Set , 1921-12-03, p. 33 Welcome Newcomer! Resources Mencken Quotes Mencken Sampler ... Memento Mori HLM in Kentucky The 31st annual 20th Century Literature Conference , held at the University of Louisville (Kentucky) February 27 to March 1, is now ready for the embalmers. We, as Menckenians, note that the high point of the conference was the session on H. L. Mencken, which had been organized by Ray Stevens during his tenure as president of the Mencken Society. The assembled professors ate and drank and conversed with Menckenian gusto. Dr Stevens

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A National Historic Landmark, this brick, Italianate row house was the residence of noted Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken from 1883 until his death in 1956. A curmudgeon with an acidic writing style, Mencken gained national recognition as one of the most influential critics of American culture, politics, education and life, coining the word "booboisie" to describe the American public. His influence was unmistakable as the foremost authority on the American language through his multi-volumed The American Language . He also discovered and championed such new and bold American writers as James Branch Cabell and Sinclair Lewis. Mencken's diatribes against American culture and democracy went so deep that he once received an appreciative authographed photograph from Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II. Mencken himself came from German ancestry, and was vocal about his opposistion to American involvement in World War I. Mencken's interests went beyond the politics and contemporary culture of the day; he once produced a book on the philosophy of German philogist-turned-philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Henry Louis Mencken, 1880-1956 Prejudices: First Series. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1919. Full Text (254 p., ca. 400K) HTML file SGML/TEI file for use with an SGML Viewer Illustrations Title Page Biographical Information About Henry Louis Mencken Subjects American essays 20th century. American literature History and criticism. Funding from a Chancellor's Grant for Instructional Technology supported the electronic publication of this title. Return to "Library of Southern Literature" Home Page Return to Documenting the American South Home Page Feedback URL: http://docsouth.unc.edu/mencken/menu.html Last update November 07, 2000

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Mencken, Henry Louis "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." "Time is the great legaliser, even in the field of morals." "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." "Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too." "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." "Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." "Criticism is prejudice made plausible." "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." "I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark."

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