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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.

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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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