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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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