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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.