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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses. (Ernest Hemingway)
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet. View quote
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together. View quote
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? View quote
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I. -men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering. View quote
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I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you. View quote
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Never mistake motion for action. View quote
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. View quote
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span. View quote
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight. View quote
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. (Ernest Hemingway)
War is not won by victory. View quote
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg. View quote
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. View quote
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I am so in love with you that there isn't anything else. View quote
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better. View quote
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution. View quote
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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it. View quote
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do. View quote
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? View quote
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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. (Ernest Hemingway)
My big fish must be somewhere. View quote
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. View quote
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains. View quote
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. View quote
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