"You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself."
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"When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."
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"It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta."
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"Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood."
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"The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing."
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"Before you quit, you have to try"
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"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."
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"Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function."
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"There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which."
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"A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe."
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"If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree."
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"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."
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"My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world."
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"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is."
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"You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development."
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"The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece."
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"Love is infinitely more endurable than hate."
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"[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!"
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"My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."
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"I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind."
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