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

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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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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.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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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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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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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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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Indians, 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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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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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