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

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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Astonishingly Complicated Easy Great Hard Life Make No One Reform
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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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