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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

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Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

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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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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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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

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For what are we born if not to aid one another?

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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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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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