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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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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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(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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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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

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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

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

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