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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

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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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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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Isn't it pretty to think so.

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I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

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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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How little we know of what there is to know.

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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