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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

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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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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

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Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.

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Never confuse movement with action.

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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

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