"Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing."
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"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
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"Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it."
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"The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness."
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"Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . ."
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"You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it."
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"Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure)."
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"You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow."
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"Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?"
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"The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen"
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"Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol."
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"Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears."
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"He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out."
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"Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out."
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"Good writing is good conversation, only more so."
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"The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything."
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"What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done."
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"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want."
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"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
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"The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it."
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