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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living 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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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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For what are we born if not to aid one another?

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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.

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Most people never listen.

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