Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War. - Ernest Hemingway

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Ernest Hemingway

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

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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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Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

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If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

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The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

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