We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
("The Winter of Our Discontent")
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Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the devil. And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil. His wife protected him whenever she could.
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For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theatre, it doesn't exist. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person, a real person you know, or an imagined person -- and write to that one.
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