"To be successful in writing, use short sentences."
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"Any man's life, told truly, is a novel."
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"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
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"Most people never listen."
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"The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea."
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"I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?"
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"There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris."
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
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"What is moral is what you feel good after."
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"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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
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"Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something."
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"The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal."
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"Everything is your fault if you're any damn good."
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"The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves."
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"Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better."
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"Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?"
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"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."
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"When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?"
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"There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life."
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"By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better."
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