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If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. ↗

— Peter Welch

#already #ask #authorize #authorizing #bills

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#aware #check #checking #child #child abuse

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#deep #empty #fed #i #learned

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#each #end #except #good #good wife

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#american literature #book #called #comes #finn

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#broaden #i #like #mind #standing

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #brilliance #danger #death #degree

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#anything #applied #become #concepts #critics

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #depression #good #known #mood

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#exact #fear #increase #increases #proportion