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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.