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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Clearly Obscure Tongue Understand Way Wild
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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Both Maskm Unveil Write
We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Anyone Born Eating Heaven Help Little Perhaps Something
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Beauty Clear Dare Poet Remove Unzip
The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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City Country Day Each Locust Person Something Somewhere
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Before Bloom Come Seed Through
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Belief Country Gullible People Person Print See Trust
In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Every Queen Floozy Touch
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Else Encourage Go Know Still Where
A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Bias Capacities Escape Habit Open Reveal Self Something Style Writer
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Accident Companisoble Indispensable Nature Reality
You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Concerned Far Terrific
And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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Addresses Again Before Down Heard Just Morning Night People Settle Voice
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Attention Country Duty Writer
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Come Country Live Lucky One Should Unless
A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Responsibility Reverse Right

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