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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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Good 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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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