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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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

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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

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The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

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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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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

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And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

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