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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

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