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“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.”
“No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the Screaming Eagles, about the Eighty-Second Airborne and Hell On Wheels, but no...”
“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”
“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”
“We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure and simple and good,...”
“If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.”
“She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.”
“The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.”
“Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.''I'll tell her,' I said.'Don't bother. I can always wait here. It's very pleasant i...”
