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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Sean's a great, great writer."
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"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."
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"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."
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"The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives."
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
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"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
Absence
"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
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"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
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