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.
SINCLAIR LEWISIndians, 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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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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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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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