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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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…
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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…
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the…
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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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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get…
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a…
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…
— Sinclair Lewis
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When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what…
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Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities,…
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Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
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