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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. - Author object (388)

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. - Author object (388)

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. - Author object (388)

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. - Author object (388)

Wonder. Go on and wonder. - Author object (388)

Pouring out liquor is like burning books. - Author object (388)

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. - Author object (388)

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. - Author object (388)

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. - Author object (388)

There is no was. - Author object (388)

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. - Author object (388)

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…. - Author object (388)

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. - Author object (388)

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. - Author object (388)

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. - Author object (388)

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - Author object (388)

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. - Author object (388)

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. - Author object (388)

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid. - Author object (388)

You can't. You just have to. - Author object (388)