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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.

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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

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The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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