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"Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important."
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"Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity."
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"One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic."
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"A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."
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". . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . ."
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"That's not FOR REAL."
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"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray."
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"I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline."
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"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
Fun
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
Time
"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."
Creativity
"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."
Life
"To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe."
Culture
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
Social
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Business
"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
Death
"I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."
Emotion
"How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time."
Knowledge
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