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.
(Quoted in Across the River and Into the Trees, 1967)
Ernest Hemingway
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Courage is grace under pressure. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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