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My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.
Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.
Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.
Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.
He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra
If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.
And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.