There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood 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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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