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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
Books

"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism

"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on."
Life

"I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things."
Emotion

"You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them."
Morality

"I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
History

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
Being

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
War

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
War
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