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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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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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Religion is the opium of the poor.

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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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You never understand anybody that loves you.

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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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

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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

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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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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.

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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

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To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

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