There is no friend as loyal as a book.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
All thinking men are atheists.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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