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"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."

"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."

"The less you need, the more you live."
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"The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

"I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes."

"Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
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