"The smallest coffins are the heaviest."
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"Everyone behaves badly--given the chance."
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"To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable."
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"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."
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"Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?"
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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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"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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"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
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"There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests."
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"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."
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"War is not won by victory."
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"Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
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"Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do."
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"It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."
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"We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it."
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"Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ."
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"However you make your living is where your talent lies."
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent."
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"Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't."
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