There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to … - Ernest Hemingway

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Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

Ernest Hemingway

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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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

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New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

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Woody Allen

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

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