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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

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

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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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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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