"Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind."
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"Try to be better than yourself."
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"No man can write who is not first a humanitarian"
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"Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."
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"Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too."
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"You have to write badly in order to write well."
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"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not."
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"Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words"
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"You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to."
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"The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth..."
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."
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"Read, read read. Read everything."
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"Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting."
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"In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world."
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"An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done."
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"It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between."
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"Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint."
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"The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't."
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"There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp."
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"I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue."
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