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  • #51
    Re: Writers

    In a civilized environment dissident writers are awarded the Nobel Prize (Mann, Shaw, Sartre). In an uncivilized environment dissidents are silenced, exiled, starved, shot or driven to suicide.

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    • #52
      Re: Writers

      on the competition:
      Charlotte Bronte didn’t much care for Jane Austen;
      and Tchaikovsky had nothing but contempt for Brahms.
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      • #53
        Re: Writers

        Editors, publishers, agents:
        they are the pimps of literature.

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        • #54
          Re: Writers

          “Sometimes you are the bird and
          sometimes you are the worm.”
          We have been the worm for such a long time
          that we have forgotten what it means to have wings.
          *

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          • #55
            Re: Writers

            I write for dupes and idiots like myself
            when young.

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            • #56
              Re: Writers

              Naregatsi paraphrased:
              “If there are ten capital offenses,
              I plead guilty to all eleven of them.”
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              Omar Khayyam paraphrased:
              “Beneath a shade tree,
              a bottle of booze,
              a baloney sandwich,
              and a piece of ass to penetrate:
              why should I give a damn about anything else?”
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              You may now draw your own conclusions.
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              • #57
                Re: Writers

                Because one of my books is disguised propaganda
                it became a best-seller.

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                • #58
                  Re: Writers

                  A LETTER TO A GENTLE READER
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                  Dear friend:
                  After reading some of your writings
                  I am willing to concede we may well be soul mates.
                  Only one minor objection:
                  You seem to be unaware of the fact that Buddhism is an atheist religion. By the way, have you read Toynbee's STUDY OF HISTORY. Volume xii, in which he attempts to reconcile all religions and for which reason he was called a charlatan?
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                  Every organized religion is convinced it is the true religion and it has a monopoly on truth. And religious leaders appear to be too arrogant to understand that this mindset has promoted many wars and massacres, but above all it has legitimized intolerance and a false sense of superiority.
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                  Let's keep in touch, by all means. I look forward to hearing from you.
                  Cheers! / ara

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                  • #59
                    Re: Writers

                    Wednesday, July 13, 2016
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                    NOTES / COMMENTS
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                    It is not easy writing for readers
                    who hate to read or have a reputation
                    of starving their writers.
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                    Once upon a time I thought of bishops
                    as experts on God.
                    I now think if they can lie about God
                    they will lie about anything.
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                    I have committed so many blunders
                    that they have become luxuries
                    beyond my means.
                    *
                    Lytton Strachey on death: “If this is dying,
                    then I don’t think much of it.”
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                    • #60
                      Re: Writers

                      Asserting moral superiority is the surest symptom of moral inferiority.

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