"Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective"
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"The only decent bone in her body was mine."
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"You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
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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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"Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life."
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"Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good."
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"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
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"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
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"I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows."
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"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
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"where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go."
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"How little we know of what there is to know."
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"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale."
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"There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers."
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"You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs."
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"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
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"Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born."
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"No one ever stopped when they were winning."
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