Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.


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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.


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The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.


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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.


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Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.


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Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'


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I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.


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Life: another day, another dolor.


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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.


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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.


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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.


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Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.


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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.


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A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.


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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings i town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.


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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.


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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.


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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.


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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.


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Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.


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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.


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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.


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May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill.


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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.


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Beautiful Kylemore Abbey in Ireland. #europe
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.


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And I am struck once again by the unutterable beauty, terror, and strangeness of everything we think we know.


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The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.


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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.


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Desire lends strength. Aspiration creates inspiration, which, for the artist, is the breath of life.


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