Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
SINCLAIR LEWISI 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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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