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.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.Ernest Hemingway
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God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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