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" All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. "
Ernest Hemingway
Than
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Good
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" A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. "
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" When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. "
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" I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. "
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" 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. "
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" Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. "
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" It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. "
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" Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. "
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" Never mistake motion for action. "
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" I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. "
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" His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. "
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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. "
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" On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time. "
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" Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. "
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You
" The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. "
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Best Way
Trust
" You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. "
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Writing
Time
" I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. "
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" Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten. "
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" When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. "
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" Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. "
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" The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. "
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" We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. "
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" No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. "
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" An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. "
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" I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. "
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" Wars are caused by undefended wealth. "
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" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "
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" I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? "
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" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "
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