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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

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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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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

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There isnt always an explanation for everything.

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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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