Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
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A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.