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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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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 c...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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Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

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Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

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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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I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful r...more

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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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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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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how ...more

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In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

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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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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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I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima