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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

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The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

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

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Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

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I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

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He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

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Not the why but the what.

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But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

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