"One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war."
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"Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing."
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"It was strange how easy being tired enough made it."
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"There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy."
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"Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long."
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"Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next."
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"A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill."
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"My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought."
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"Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago"
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"The only kind of writing is rewriting."
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"And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought."
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"In war, one cannot say what one feels."
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"As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it."
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"Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech."
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"To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you."
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"When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough."
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"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."
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"Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well"
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