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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

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It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

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For what are we born if not to aid one another?

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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.

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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

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Work could cure almost anything

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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

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When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

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