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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, no matter how justified, is not a crime.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain.
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were heightened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow-hungry.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
When a man is still in rebellion against death he has pleasure in taking to himself one of the Godlike attributes; that of giving it.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The Garden of Eden (1986)
Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.
A Moveable Feast (1964)
A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Like all truly brave people Antonio is light-hearted and likes to joke and make fun of serious things.
The Dangerous Summer (1985)
All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Death in the Afternoon (1932)