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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

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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.

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