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Courage is grace under pressure. - Author object (409)

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. - Author object (409)

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. - Author object (409)

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. - Author object (409)

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me. - Author object (409)

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. - Author object (409)

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Author object (409)

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. - Author object (409)

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason. - Author object (409)

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. - Author object (409)

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Author object (409)

Isn't it pretty to think so. - Author object (409)

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. - Author object (409)

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - Author object (409)

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. - Author object (409)

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. - Author object (409)

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. - Author object (409)

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. - Author object (409)

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. - Author object (409)

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. - Author object (409)