"The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!"
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"Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper."
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"I told you: you can make yourself love anybody."
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"All artists are two-headed calves."
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"I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon."
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"She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect."
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"I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race."
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"Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender."
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"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."
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"I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners."
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"Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old."
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"It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles."
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"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."
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"Sicily is more beautiful than any woman."
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"I know the next best thing is often the very best."
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"Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims."
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"If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls."
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"Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost."
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"there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven."
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"I thought of the future, and spoke of the past."
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