Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.


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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over
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By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ...
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin...
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Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio...
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
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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 dist...
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
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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 b...
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...
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As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten...
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l...
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t...
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
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That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
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Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ...
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin...
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik...
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w...
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Never mistake motion for action.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni...
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go...
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
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I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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