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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

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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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We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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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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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

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