"One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever."
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"I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit."
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"Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true."
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"He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics."
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?"
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"I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities."
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"Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace."
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"Souls and bodies should go on together."
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