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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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So far, 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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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

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Work could cure almost anything

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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

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The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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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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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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