“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Best“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
Great“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Best“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
War“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.”
War“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
Best“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.”
Men“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Funny“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
Architecture“Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?”
Failure“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.”
Life“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Great“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
Architecture“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.”
Best“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Life“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Intelligence“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
Death“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“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.”
War“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
War“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
Great“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
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