It's One Of Our Favorite American Myths

I Think Perhaps We Want A More Conscious Life. We're Tired Of Drudging And Sleeping And Dying. We're Tired Of Seeing Just A Few People Able To Be Individualists. We're Tired Of Always Deferring Hope Till The Next Generation. We're Tired Of Hearing Politicians And Priests And Cautious Reformers... Coax Us, 'be Calm! Be Patient! Wait! We Have The Plans For A Utopia Already Made; Just Wiser Than You.' For Ten Thousand Years They've Said That. We Want Our Utopia Now — And We're Going To Try Our Hands At It.

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The Greatest Mystery About A Human Being Is Not His Reaction To Sex Or Praise, But The Manner In Which He Contrives To Put In Twenty-four Hours A Day. It Is This Which Puzzles The Longshoreman About The Clerk, The Londoner About The Bushman.

It Is Impossible To Discourage The Real Writers - They Don't Give A Damn What You Say, They're Going To Write.

My Objection To The Church Isn't That The Preachers Are Cruel, Hypocritical, Actually Wicked, Though Some Of Them Are That, Too - Think Of How Many Are Arrested For Selling Fake Stock, For Seducing 14-year-old Girls In Orphanages Under Their Care, For Arson, For Murder. An It Isn't So Much That The Church Is In Bondage To Big Business And Doctrines As Laid Down By Millionaires - Though A Lot Of Churches Are That, Too. My Chief Objection Is That 99% Of Sermons And Sunday School Teachings Are So Agonizingly Dull.