I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
From Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
You're beautiful, like a May fly.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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