Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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