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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#civilized #cured #endure #even #food

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#dreams #else #everyone #like #look

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. ↗

— William Alexander Henry

#how #infantryman #look #much #seen

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#father #first #kid #look #rule

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#american literature #book #called #comes #finn

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. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#damn #enough #good #good parts #his

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #fishing #girl #just #letter

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#book #come #consider #could #hope

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#became #care #certain #certain extent #clear

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#comfortable #costume #good #i #looks