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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.
• People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
• 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…
• It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
• Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate…
• A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these…
• Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
• When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
• Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.…
• It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the…
• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute…

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