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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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Write drunk; edit sober.

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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

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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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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

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There is no rule on how to write.

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Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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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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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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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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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

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