Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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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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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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