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Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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Most people never listen.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love
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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.
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War is not won by victory.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.
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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.