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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Country Like Love
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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Earn Essential Immortal Morality Must Think Underneath
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Drink Exactly Now Revolution Want
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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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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