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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Agonizingly Chie Dull Nine Ninty Objection Percent School Sermon Sunday
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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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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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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Aaraom Anxious Being Believe Do Except might Mind Perhaps Satan
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Country Many People Say Trouble
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Important Living Most Part Ponder Upon
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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