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 | "I"m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." | |
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Found in the topic Into.
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| "Never mistake motion for action." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is
not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not
defeated." | |
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Found in the topic Defeat.
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| "The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the
broken places." | |
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Found in the topic Everyone.
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| "As you get older it is harder to have heroes." | |
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Found in the topic Hero.
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| "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called Huckleberry Finn." | |
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Found in the topic Literature.
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| "I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good
luck and write better than I can." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Always do sober what you said you"d do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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| "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really
happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all
happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the
bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and
how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people,
then you are a writer." | |
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Found in the topic Alike.
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| "What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is
what you feel bad after." | |
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Found in the topic Conscience.
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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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Found in the topic Hunting.
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| "The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the
currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring
a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic
opportunists." | |
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Found in the topic Inflation.
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| "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then
wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is
a movable feast." | |
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Found in the topic Food.
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| "Live life to the fullest." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of
discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into
that more difficult time when it is a man"s duty to understand his world
rather than simply fight for it." | |
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Found in the topic Oath.
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| "Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a
lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination." | |
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Found in the topic Cowardice.
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| "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening
carefully. Most people never listen." | |
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Found in the topic Listen.
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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. They are
the very simplest things and, because it takes a man"s life to know them,
the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only
heritage he has to leave." | |
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Found in the topic Learn.
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