If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
("The Old Man and the Sea")
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
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Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false springàBut Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes.
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
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