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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.

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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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