"I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist."

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"I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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"The middlebrow, I hate."

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