"Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so."
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"You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?"
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"But did thee feel the earth move?"
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"You're beautiful, like a May fly."
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"Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure."
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"First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking."
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"Easy writing makes hard reading."
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"How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
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"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start."
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"He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure."
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"My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing."
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"It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be."
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"There isnt always an explanation for everything."
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"For what are we born if not to aid one another?"
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"I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
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"The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there."
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"I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead."
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"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that."
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"I felt very lonely when they were all there."
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"Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them."
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