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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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