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"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
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"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
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"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
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"Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child."
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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
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"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."
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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
"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
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Business
"In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone."
Trust
"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."
Spiritual
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
War
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
World
"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Success
"Never confuse movement with action."
Action
"Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you are the only thing that matters. Please, please, dear Jesus' The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rosa about Jesus. And he never told anybody."
Religion
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