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" Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. "

Ernest Hemingway

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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 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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" 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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" About morals, 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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" Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about 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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" When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. "

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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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" Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. "

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" The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. "

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" Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. "

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" A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. "

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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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" You're beautiful, like a May fly. "

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" All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. "

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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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" 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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" Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. "

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" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

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" Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. "

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" All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. "

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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 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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" 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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