We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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