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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

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How little we know of what there is to know.

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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

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

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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

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Never mistake movement for action

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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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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

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

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