- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. »
- There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which. »
- When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. »
- I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. »
- They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. »
- Never confuse movement with action. »
- Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. »
- Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . . »
- But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. »
- There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self. »
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