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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 can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."
"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."
"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."
"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
"I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples."
"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
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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."
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
"Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing."
"He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence."
"Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched."
"The writer has no rights at all except those he forges for himself inside his own work. We have become so flooded with sorry fiction based on unearned liberties, or on the notion that fiction must represent the typical, that in the public mind the deeper kinds of realism are less and less understandable."
"He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to."
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