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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.