“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 love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
Business“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
Success“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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Great“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
Life“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Life“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
Hope“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
Best“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
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 world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Strength“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Intelligence“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
War“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
Great“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“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
Men“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
Great“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”
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