Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
From Ernest Hemingway
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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