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| The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards. |
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| The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do. |
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| The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he tak |
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| The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. |
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| The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. |
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| The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. |
| Happiness; Limits; People |
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| The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w |
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| The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over |
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| The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different from you and me.'' And how someone had said to Julian, ''Yes, they have more money.'' |
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| The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. |
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| The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry. |
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| The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places |
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| The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. |
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| The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. |
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| The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. |
| Death; Good Bye; World |
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| The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. |
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| There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. |
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| There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. |
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| There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from |
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