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Never mistake movement for action

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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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Work could cure almost anything

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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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Not the why but the what.

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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

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All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

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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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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

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