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" All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. "
Ernest Hemingway
Them
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Words
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" There is no friend as loyal as a book. "
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" There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. "
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" I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. "
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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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" The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. "
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" Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. "
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" The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. "
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" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "
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" Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. "
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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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" Man is not made for defeat. "
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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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" When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. "
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" My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. "
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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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" For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. "
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" Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. "
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" Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. "
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" In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. "
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" Courage is grace under pressure. "
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" I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. "
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" I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. "
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" You see, I am 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. "
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" An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. "
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