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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."
"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."
"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."
"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."
"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."
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