“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
Time“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”
God“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
Time“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Travel“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Love“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
Communication“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
Good“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”
War“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
Good“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
Best“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
Great“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Imagination“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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Best“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Death“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Age“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Good“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”
God“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
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