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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
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"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
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"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."
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"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
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"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
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"A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins."
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"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
Wisdom
"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
Nature
"It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another."
Emotion
"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."
Food
"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
Empathy
"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
Writing
"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
Animals
"Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also."
Work
"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Life
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
Psychology
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