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

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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Being Give High Man Oratory Principle
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Down Every Man King Long Look So Someone
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Much Nothing Revolution Wait
People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Escape Scientist Something Writer
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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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