"The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off."
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"Retirement is the ugliest word in the language."
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"A cat has absolute honesty."
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"Life is pain, so live it up while you can."
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"I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced."
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"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you."
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"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
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"I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends."
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"But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there."
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"The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you."
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"For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway."
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"I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way."
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"I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me."
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"And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered."
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"At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow."
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"If a writer stops observing, he is finished."
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"You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
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"You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?"
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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
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"You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive."
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