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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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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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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

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You'll lose it, if you talk about it

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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

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