"It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
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"Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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"I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy."
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"No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience."
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"Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe."
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"When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me."
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"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
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"Isn't it pretty to think so."
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"And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises."
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"A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him."
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"But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."
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"You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."
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"There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day."
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"I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together"
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"I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life."
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"We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight."
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"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
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"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
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"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
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"I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said."
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