"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."
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"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them."
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"In order to write about life first you must live it."
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"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest."
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"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
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"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
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"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine."
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"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
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"Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light."
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"Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."
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"you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."
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"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
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"Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock.""
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"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?"
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"As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come."
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"The further you go in writing the more alone you are."
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"All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well."
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"Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for."
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"Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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