"We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another."
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"Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."
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"Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves."
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"All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons."
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"You never understand anybody that loves you."
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"In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist."
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"Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day."
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"Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done."
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"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"
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"[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)"
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"Work could cure almost anything"
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"Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light."
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"People fall in love, but have to climb out."
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"The ocean is worth writing about just as man is."
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"He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care."
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"'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'"
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"I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work."
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."
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"You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?"
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"She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea."
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