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

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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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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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 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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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