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" Wars are caused by undefended wealth. "

Ernest Hemingway

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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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" I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? "

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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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" There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. "

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" You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. "

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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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" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "

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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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" There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. "

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" A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. "

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