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

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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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