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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.



When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.



As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary



A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.



But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.



Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.



This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You do not want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste



In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary



Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.



When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.



Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.



Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.



Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.



If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.



I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.








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