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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

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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 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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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

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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. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

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

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

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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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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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