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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
The writer's job is to tell the truth.
No horse named Morbid ever won a race.
Write hard and clear about what hurts.
In war, one cannot say what one feels.
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
A man does not exist until he is drunk.
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Everybody has something wrong with them.
You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
It's a town you come to for a short time.
The only decent bone in her body was mine.
I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
All bad writers are in love with the epic.
Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
No one ever stopped when they were winning.
People fall in love, but have to climb out.
I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
How little we know of what there is to know.
You never understand anybody that loves you.
If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
There are worse places to be than on your own.
It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
For what are we born if not to aid one another?
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
We wait always for something that does not come.
There isnt always an explanation for everything.
Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.