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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.
• 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.
• In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.
• The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."
• Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?
• Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

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