If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.
There are only three sports bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are merely games.
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.
What is moral is what you feel good after.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure
I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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