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| There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other, ... We always returned to it ... Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy. | | Uncategorized | |
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| There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. | | Hunting | |
| There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. | | Writing | |
| There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. | | Uncategorized | |
| There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. | | Uncategorized | |
| There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. | | Uncategorized | |
| They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him. | | Uncategorized | |
| They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. | | Uncategorized | |
| This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. | | Uncategorized | |
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| To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them | | Heaven | |
| Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory; nor, if he wins far enough, shall there be any reward within himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| Wars are caused by undefended wealth. | | War; Wealth | |
| We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master | | Uncategorized | |
| We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it | | Time | |
| Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it -- although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls. | | Uncategorized | |
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| When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. | | Ideas | |
