And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
(Letter to his family, 1918)

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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