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| Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full | | Uncategorized | |
| Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. | | Emotion; Writing | |
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| Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. | | Retirement | |
| Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. | | Uncategorized | |
| Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. | | Uncategorized | |
| Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no | | Uncategorized | |
| Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture. | | Architecture | |
| That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. | | Uncategorized | |
| That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. | | Uncategorized | |
| The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off. | | Lies; Truth | |
| The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. | | Uncategorized | |
| The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. | | Golf | |
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| The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other. | | Uncategorized | |
