"She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do."
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"Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home."
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"I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie"
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"Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant."
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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
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"Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing."
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"Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins."
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"The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him."
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"In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it."
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"Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world."
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"Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity."
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"It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000."
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"Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?"
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"When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it..."
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"If there is a God what the hell is He for?"
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"No one individual can tell the truth."
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"I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day."
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"One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too."
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"So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
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"All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away."
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