"Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us."
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"How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him."
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"There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing."
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"I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring."
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"You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother."
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"Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work."
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"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another."
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"Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish."
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"Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol."
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"I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day."
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"Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief."
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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
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"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure."
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"Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that."
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"I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there."
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"And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."
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"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"
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"Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places."
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"I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be"
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