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“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
― The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
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“It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying onceself Cathy in "Wuthering Heights" with one's head in a Food Fair bag.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there...”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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