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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

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I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).

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Everybody has something wrong with them.

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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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Yes, they have more money.

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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

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All bad writers are in love with the epic.

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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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