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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. - Author object (409)

In order to write about life first you must live it. - Author object (409)

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. - Author object (409)

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. - Author object (409)

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. - Author object (409)

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Author object (409)

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. - Author object (409)

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. - Author object (409)

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No - Author object (409)

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Author object (409)

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. - Author object (409)

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. - Author object (409)

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Author object (409)

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. - Author object (409)

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? - Author object (409)

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. - Author object (409)

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. - Author object (409)

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. - Author object (409)

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. - Author object (409)

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. - Author object (409)