"The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans."
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"If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them."
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."
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"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
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"What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure."
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"Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be."
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"Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?"
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"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
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"There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."
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"I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other."
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"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
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"We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes."
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"Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times."
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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
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"I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."
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