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"Never fight an inanimate object."
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"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
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"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
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"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."
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"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."
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"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive."
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"I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight."
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"Don't fight the problem, decide it."
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity

"Wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg."
Spiritual

"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
Creativity

"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."
War

"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
Sacrifice

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."
Art

"Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
Love

"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."
Creativity

"The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water."
Nature

"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Motivation
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