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"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
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"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
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"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."
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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
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"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."
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"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
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"If you are explaining, you are losing."
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"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
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"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
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"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."
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"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
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"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Life
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
Writer
"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."
Self
"The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it."
Literature
"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
Self
"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."
Life
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
Opinion
"What one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
Religion
"Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith."
Religion
"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."
Learning
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