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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Sterile Upon Writer
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Country Dozen Fictioneer Insane May Most People Person Poet Tradition Young
So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Aching Anything Car Start Tedium Window Worse
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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Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Aron Arrest Case Country Fourteen Girl Many Murderer Orphanage People Seduce Sell Stock Thin Year
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Important Living Most Part Ponder Upon
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Amn Another Been Civilized Completely Ever Known never Nobody Possible Thousand Year
Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Dealt Fortune Generosity Known Many Much Poverty Rather Struggle Well
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
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Become Enemy Friend Liability More Quater Reasonable Turn Tyranny Under
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
You have more people that love you than you know.
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Know Love More People You
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
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Cure Democracy Evil Fascism Funny Therapeutic
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Occupation Season Winter
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap
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
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Advertise Cheapest Economic Factor Good Particular Sell Valuable Worthless
I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Believe Brought Christianity Compromise Creator God Merciless Public Scare Servant Truth Whole
To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Artistic Dubious Highbrow Intellectual Lord Own Priggish Virtue
People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Emotion Fiction Information People Read
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why

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