“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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Good“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“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“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Travel“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness“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“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 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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
War“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Great“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“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“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Imagination“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“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“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
Business“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“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.”
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