"Man is not made for defeat."
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"There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you."
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life."
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"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
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"Worry destroys the ability to write."
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"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond."
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"Drinking is a way of ending the day."
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"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
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"He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human."
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"I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
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"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."
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"This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer."
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"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way."
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"The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave."
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"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
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"Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar."
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"To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me."
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"When you have a child, the world has a hostage."
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"There is no rule on how to write."
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