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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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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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