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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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I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy,…
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The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his…
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Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
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He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by…
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know…
— Sinclair Lewis
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