"I remember things the way they should have been."
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"Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller."
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"How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up."
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"I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory."
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"Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do."
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"Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten."
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"Traveling wears me out."
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"Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper."
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"The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have."
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"Talent is a valued tormentor."
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"There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real."
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"I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."
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"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook."
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"I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection."
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"At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written."
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"I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety."
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"I'm sure Proust was a big bore."
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"I think my greatest talent really is for friendship."
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"If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work."
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"I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards."
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