Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. - Ernest Hemingway

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An unfair process helps no one. But once you've gone through with that process and you think that you know that person has raped someone, they have to go.

Ernest Hemingway

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

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An unfair process helps no one. But once you've gone through with that process and you think that you know that person has raped someone, they have to go.

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Dawud Wharnsby Ali

But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.

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Warren Buffett

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

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Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

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