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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.