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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.  
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they ...  
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain calle...  
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the ...  
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.  
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.  
All things truly wicked start from innocence.  
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to k...  
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with ...  
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necess...  
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeate...  
Courage is grace under pressure.  
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack...  
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend func...  
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more t...  
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the ...  
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.  
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he l...  
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Somet...  
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority...  
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and yo...  
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, profess...  
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.  
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or ...  
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.  
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on ...  
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, th...  
I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they ...  
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.  
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is m...  
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop wh...  
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully...  
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, y...  
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.  
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did...  
I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.  
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when wr...  
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit t...  
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wh...  
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become...  
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as foo...  
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.  
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let t...  
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is ...  
Man is not made for defeat.  
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best ...  
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.  
Never mistake motion for action.  
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is n...  
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For ...  
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage licen...  
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way...  
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live o...  
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? ...  
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have t...  
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it a...  
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is wh...  
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency...  
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billia...   Sports
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and...  
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always t...  
The shortest answer is doing the thing.  
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food)...  
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broke...  
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which...  
There is no friend as loyal as a book  
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man w...  
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old m...  
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.  
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to m...  
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have ...  
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.  
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what...  
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alc...  
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. The...  
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?  
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to wri...  
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see...  
You're beautiful, like a May fly.