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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

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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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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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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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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

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

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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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