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"Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home."
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
"Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters."
"You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen."
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
"I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone."
"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
"Never mistake motion for action."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games."
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds."
"Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."
"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."