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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.

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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
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
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Detest Fear Just Love Much People Person
I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Cannot Dodge Fact Now
You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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