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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

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You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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