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Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

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

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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.

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The writer's job is to tell the truth.

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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?

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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

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

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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

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The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

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