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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

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He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

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

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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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