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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

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I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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The only decent bone in her body was mine.

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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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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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

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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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Write drunk; edit sober.

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

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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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People fall in love, but have to climb out.

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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

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