Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
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Afternoon
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Lin Yutang
Writer
"A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already."
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie."
Walker Percy
Author, Novelist
"Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon."
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"You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak."
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"Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon"
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"Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed."
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"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road."
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"There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music."
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"What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week."
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"What is moral is what you feel good after."
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"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."
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"I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon."
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"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
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"What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October."
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"But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined."
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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."
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"I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life)."
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"I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak."
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"It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?"
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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
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