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• A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or…
• Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her…
• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
• When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.…
• New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
• If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of…
• Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
• A guitar has moonlight in it.
• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I…
• O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side…
• They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
• I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

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