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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."

"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."

"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
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