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"I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty."
"Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places."
"You've such a lovely temperature."
"Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike."
"Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works."
"Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs."
"We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood."
"It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought."
"When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places."
"Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures."
"He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone"
"Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning."
"You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]"
"All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard."
"The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves."
"Never mistake movement for action"
"Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate."
"How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time."
"wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg"
"Not the why but the what."