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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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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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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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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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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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