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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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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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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

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

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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

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There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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