"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."
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"I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools."
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"This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it."
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"But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today."
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"When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her."
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"Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates."
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"For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day."
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"He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later."
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"The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness."
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"I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division."
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"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
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"A man does not exist until he is drunk."
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"Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do"
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"If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?"
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"Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go."
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"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."
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"If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?"
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"If you're looking for messages, try Western Union."
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"You don't have to destroy me. Do you?"
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"I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things."
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