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Easy writing makes hard reading.

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Time is the least thing we have.

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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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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

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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'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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Hunger is good discipline.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

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