"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them."
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"I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."
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"The writer's job is to tell the truth."
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"The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist."
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"Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill."
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"Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre."
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"He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money.""
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"Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
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"There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!"
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"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
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"Look at things and listen and feel."
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"To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors."
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"Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever."
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"Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting."
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"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."
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"Show the readers everything, tell them nothing."
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"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
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"Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters."
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"All things truly wicked start from innocence."
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