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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

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You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

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He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

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In war, one cannot say what one feels.

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It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

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