All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.Ernest Hemingway
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
Ernest Hemingway
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over
Ernest Hemingway
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.
Ernest Hemingway
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway
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