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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the v...more

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I w...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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I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

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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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I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

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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

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That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face gr...more