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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

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One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

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Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

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At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

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