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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!

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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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