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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.