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I am not given to superstition...

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

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The older a people grows, the ...

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

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destructiveness comes only whe...

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

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The concept of 'Momism' is mal...

The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience,

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music is not technique and mel...

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

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No writer, I believe, should a...

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

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Never, if you can possibly hel...

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.

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There is no beauty without ord...

There is no beauty without order.

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when the people of any country...

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

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The best government in the wor...

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

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There is, of course, a differe...

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

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What a man does in his own hou...

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

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A favorite means of escaping t...

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

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The main barrier between East ...

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

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People don't care to read what...

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

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Religion was their meat and th...

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

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doing and being are very close...

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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No daughter is ever her mother...

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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Iowans know themselves and wha...

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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A foreigner is a friend I have...

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

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