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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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No one ever stopped when they were winning.

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There is no rule on how to write.

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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

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However you make your living is where your talent lies.

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

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

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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

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