"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over."
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"Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks."
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"But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true."
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"A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek."
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"I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
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"The best writing is certainly when you are in love"
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"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."
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"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
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"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time)."
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"Anyone can be a fisherman in May."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
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"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
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"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
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"Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
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"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."
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"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
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"Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends."
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"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
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"The shortest answer is doing the thing."
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