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" All things truly wicked start from innocence. "

Ernest Hemingway

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" A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. "

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" Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. "

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" There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. "

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" All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. "

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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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" The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. "

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" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "

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" When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. "

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" You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. "

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" There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. "

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" For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. "

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