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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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Anyone Arrwe Bore Dead Else Long People Power Writer
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Die Fresh Generation Immortal Men Necessary Plutocracy Rained Service
When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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