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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of
loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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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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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― A Farewell to Arms
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― A Farewell to Arms
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
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“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had
really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel
that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the
good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and
the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give
that to people, then you are a writer.”
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“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“All thinking men are atheists.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
― Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to
kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks
every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those
that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle
and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be
sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year
when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against
the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always
be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was
frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as
though a young person died for no reason.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“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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“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“Never confuse movement with action.”
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“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one
reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take
risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.
Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded,
sometimes destroyed.”
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“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start
and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write
seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with
it.”
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