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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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 have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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