All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Ernest Hemingway
Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
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It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell.
Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
He went out and I heard him laughing in the hall. I heard some.
The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.
You're really about the best friend I have, Jake. God help you, I thought.
In any art you're allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.