"Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian or Spanish to each other. It's been helpful to me to study and try to emulate that in that way."

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Miroslav Penkov

#Farewell Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.”
“One thing is clear - demons know they must submit to the superior authority in the name of Jesus Christ!”
“I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?”
“In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004.”
“Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.”
“If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.”
“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”

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