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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

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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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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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One cat just leads to another.

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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

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You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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