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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

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There are worse places to be than on your own.

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

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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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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

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