Ernest Hemingway Quotes
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
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Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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The Thought Police: To censor and protect.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
