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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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 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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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