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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is