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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
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"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
Creativity
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
Morality
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
Art
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
Art
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Happiness
"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
Lifestyle
"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
Resilience
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
Justice
"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
Language
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
War
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