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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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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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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

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The writer's job is to tell the truth.

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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

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

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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

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Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

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