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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

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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.

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did...more

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Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergoapiol pills to make me come around because you were afraid to have a baby. Love is quinine and quinine and...more

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I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such thin...more

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So th...more

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You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make...more

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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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All thinking men are atheists.

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That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off b...more

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You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

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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 sim...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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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much ab...more