"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought from outside is likely to decide the quality of the people that has been brought into his life.”
“I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!”
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
“The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in the footsteps of Jesus, the resurrection faith undergoes no crisis. On the other hand, it is better not to believe in God than to believe in a God who minimizes human beings, holds them under and oppresses them, with a view to a better world to come.”
“What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.”
“Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.”
“TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.”
“If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.”

Source : Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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