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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
[ Defeat ]
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
[ Comedy and Comedians ]
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
[ Words ]
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
[ Words ]
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All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
[ Innocence ]
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
[ Age and Aging ]
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
[ Courage ]
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
[ Uncertainty ]
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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.
[ Truth ]
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
[ Listening ]
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
[ Fights and Fighting ]
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
[ Purpose ]
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Man is not made for defeat.
[ Potential ]
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
[ Simplicity ]
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
[ Retirement ]
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
[ Evil ]
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
[ Adversity ]
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The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
[ World ]
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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There is no friend as loyal as a book
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
[ Truth ]
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
[ Morality ]
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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