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

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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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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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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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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

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Yes, they have more money.

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

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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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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

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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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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

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