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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

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It's a town you come to for a short time.

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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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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 write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

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I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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