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- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
- Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined…
- Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
- You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of…
- I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil…
- But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.
- I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete…
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a…
- It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
- I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
- You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
- Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
- Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and…
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
- I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
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