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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

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

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

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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

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You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

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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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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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No one ever stopped when they were winning.

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

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