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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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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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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

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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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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

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I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

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