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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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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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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

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Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

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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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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

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