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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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