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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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To advise is not to compel.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

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