"I am always in love."
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"If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes."
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"When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again."
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"Live it up so you can write it down."
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"Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death."
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"And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?"
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"But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone."
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"Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing."
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"You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you."
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"What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had."
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"No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough."
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"There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid."
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"Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
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"Write as well as you can and finish what you start."
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"He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway."
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"Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
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"Yes, they have more money."
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"Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral."
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"Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead."
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"I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write."
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