"Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things"
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"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers."
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"It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way."
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"The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him."
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"He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business."
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"It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick."
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"I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows."
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"And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
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"Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can."
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"Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy."
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"I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again."
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"The best way to become a writer is to go off and write."
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"Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France."
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"Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?"
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"A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children."
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"But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope)."
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"To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church."
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"They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him."
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"Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man."
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"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."
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