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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.

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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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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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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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