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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
~ C. S. Forester
Afford
Anywhere
Could
Does
Go
He
Living
Man
Particular
Rarely
Wanted
Who
Writes
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
~ C. S. Forester
Always
Clutch
Elsewhere
Excuse
Get
He
Hearth
Him
Home
Hosts
Mood
Move
Novelist
Out
Passing
Plead
Readily
Whim
Work
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
~ C. S. Forester
Contrast
Counterfeit
Crises
Deeply
Dreadful
Emotionally
Emotions
England
Everything
Hollywood
Moved
Out
Returned
Stark
Trivial
Worn
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
~ C. S. Forester
Did
Editors
Formed
Ideals
My Own
Never
Only
Own
Publishers
Resolution
Tastes
Think
Those
Thought
Want
Without
Word
Write
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
~ C. S. Forester
Desire
End
Felt
Heard
Joined
Later
Middle
Never
Novels
Patches
Slightest
Started
Together
Written
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
~ C. S. Forester
Book
Each
Felt
Like
Must
Princess
Seven
Through
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
~ C. S. Forester
Away
Exhausting
Far
Know
Most
Novel
Work
Writing
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Novel writing wrecks homes.
~ C. S. Forester
Homes
Novel
Wrecks
Writing
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
~ C. S. Forester
Enhances
Flavor
Fraud
Perhaps
Suspicion
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
~ C. S. Forester
Applied
Clerk
Doctor
Doctor Who
Get
Hall
Heart
Outer
Papers
Rejected
Satisfied
Who
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The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
~ C. S. Forester
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
~ C. S. Forester
Accord
Arm
Came
Day
Down
Fountain
Fountain Pen
Inside
Like
Material
Oil
Out
Own
Pen
Six
Thousand
Thousand Words
Up
Words
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
~ C. S. Forester
Bed
Breakfast
Dress
Eat
Me
Morning
Newspaper
Run
Shave
Through
Up
Wake
Wake Up
While
Work
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
~ C. S. Forester
Begin
Beginning
Continue
End
Novel
Other
Than
Way
Writing
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
~ C. S. Forester
Along
Different
Lines
Need
Plan
Scale
Still
Think
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
~ C. S. Forester
Accepted
Alive
Being
Chance
Find
Me
No Chance
Really
Service
Should
Still
Surprised
Tell
Time
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
~ C. S. Forester
Ask
Books
British
British Museum
Catalogue
Die
Ever
Head
Linger
List
Long
Long List
May
Museum
Name
Newspapers
No-One
Paragraph
Reading
Room
Space
Two
Which
Will
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
~ C. S. Forester
Along
Board
Canoe
Currents
Draws
Enough
Four
Her
Inches
Luggage
Moderate
Move
People
Reasonable
She
Speed
Two
Two People
Water
Will
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C. S. Forester
Profession
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BirthDate
27 August, 1899
DeathDate
02 April, 1966
Country
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