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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

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I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

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The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

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Your blood coagulates beautifully.

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

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