Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio.
("The Sun Also Rises")
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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