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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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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.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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Courage is grace under pressure.