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

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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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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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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
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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