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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

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In those days, there was no money to buy books.

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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

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I drink to make other people more interesting.

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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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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

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