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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

— 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)

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)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

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