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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

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There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

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It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

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Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

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My big fish must be somewhere.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged 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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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

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