“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Imagination“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
Time“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
Imagination“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”
Art“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
Death“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
Architecture“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“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
Architecture“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“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.”
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.”
Best“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
Travel“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
War“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.”
Time“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“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Happiness“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“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
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“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“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
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