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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

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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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The best writing is certainly when you are in love

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

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