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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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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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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

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