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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Dictate Method Pen Secret Type Use Work Writing
My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Agonizingly Chie Dull Nine Ninty Objection Percent School Sermon Sunday
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Earn Essential Immortal Morality Must Think Underneath
One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Afraid Alive Bless Die Kill Leep One Quater Speak
if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Army Being Business Commuter Human Leader Men Officer Plumber Rotary Salesmen Salvation Travel Wearers
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Escape Scientist Something Writer
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Bad Courage Form From Pugnacity Very
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Bondage Business Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too
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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Affection Discomfort Friend Greta Hearty More Nothing Old One Tendency
We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Already Go Hand Made Plan Thousand Utpoi Want Wiser Year
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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Beaten Bizzard Dispute Grow Hatreds Her Labor Make Most Nature Pleasure Politics Race Send Trouble Unnecessary War Warm Wheat
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Upon Writer
God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Around Catch Creep Disobey Done God Much never Try
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Dog My Sleep With

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