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"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"

"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
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