• Thought and Reason

  All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

  4.6 · 52 votes · 86 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

  4.6 · 23 votes · 75 reads

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• Art and Culture

  All you can be sure about in a political-minded Writeris that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as

  3.5 · 35 votes · 22 reads

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• Society

  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  3.0 · 15 votes · 70 reads

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• Time

  As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  4.9 · 11 votes · 77 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  4.6 · 17 votes · 8 reads

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• Virtues

  Courage is grace under pressure.

  5.0 · 49 votes · 82 reads

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• Defects

  Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

  4.0 · 61 votes · 200 reads

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• Nature

  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.

  3.5 · 55 votes · 160 reads

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• Art and Culture

  God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp fo

  4.5 · 40 votes · 161 reads

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• Art and Culture

  How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a Writeris driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one c

  3.7 · 25 votes · 150 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  5.0 · 64 votes · 1 reads

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• Science and Technology

  I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your to

  3.9 · 15 votes · 49 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

  4.1 · 21 votes · 20 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

  4.6 · 45 votes · 110 reads

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• Various

  I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

  3.5 · 23 votes · 22 reads

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• Feelings

  If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow

  4.2 · 30 votes · 99 reads

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• Society

  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 movable feast.

  4.1 · 15 votes · 82 reads

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• Various

  It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

  3.4 · 12 votes · 121 reads

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• Virtues

  It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

  5.0 · 40 votes · 57 reads

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• Various

  It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read the

  4.6 · 20 votes · 104 reads

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• Time

  Man is not made for defeat.

  5.0 · 14 votes · 169 reads

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• Virtues

  My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  4.8 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• Nature

  Never confuse motion with action.

  3.1 · 37 votes · 199 reads

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• Society

  Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''

  3.6 · 11 votes · 14 reads

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• Various

  Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

  4.8 · 24 votes · 122 reads

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• Various

  Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing f

  3.2 · 11 votes · 12 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

  4.2 · 10 votes · 64 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  4.6 · 33 votes · 14 reads

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• Time

  Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

  4.5 · 43 votes · 121 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

  3.3 · 55 votes · 174 reads

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• Defects

  That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  3.7 · 7 votes · 168 reads

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• Society

  The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  5.0 · 60 votes · 36 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The good parts of a book may be only something a Writeris lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.

  3.2 · 10 votes · 93 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too

  3.6 · 53 votes · 3 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The most essential gift for a good Writeris a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

  4.4 · 56 votes · 150 reads

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• Various

  The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different f

  3.3 · 22 votes · 133 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The Writermust write what he has to say, not speak it.

  4.1 · 50 votes · 163 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There are events which are so great that if a Writerhas participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  3.7 · 12 votes · 108 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life i

  4.4 · 62 votes · 102 reads

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