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Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed toge...more

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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris b...more

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good...more

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Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it ...more

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You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiter...more

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bo...more

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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 a...more

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and...more

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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 movea...more

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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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Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.''I'll tell her,' I said.'Don't bothe...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