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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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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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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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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

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

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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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