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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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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

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One must speak about serious things seriously.

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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

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For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

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