Writers Have A Rare Power Not Given

A Sensational Event Was Changing From The Brown Suit To The Gray The Contents Of His Pockets. He Was Earnest About These Objects. They Were Of Eternal Importance, Like Baseball Or The Republican Party.

Being A Man Given To Oratory And High Principles, He Enjoyed The Sound Of His Own Vocabulary And The Warmth Of His Own Virtue.

Funny How The World Always Praises Its Opera-singers So Much And Pays 'em So Well And Then Starves Its Shoemakers, And Yet It Needs Good Shoes So Much More Than It Needs Opera--or War Or Fiction.

There Are Dozens Of Young Poets And Fictioneers Most Of Them A Little Insane In The Tradition Of James Joyce, Who, However Insane They May Be, Have Refused To Be Genteel And Traditional And Dull.

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.