"The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers."
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"We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance"
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"The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry."
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"Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do."
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"No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
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"French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy."
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"Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore."
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"You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight."
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"There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly."
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"I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?"
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"But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you."
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"The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me."
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"They arrested us after breakfast."
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"I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?"
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"All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care."
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"His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be."
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"Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them."
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"Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph."
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"I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe."
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"I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable."
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