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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

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We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

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I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

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He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last countr...more

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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

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With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes ...more

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When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as...more

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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.

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If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxemb...more

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My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio w...more

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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly...more

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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next wri...more

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Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

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Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. L...more

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I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we...more