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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similies (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

— 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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