I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
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MANDY MOORE I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I an... MANDY MOORE It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebr... MANDY MOORE When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their h... MANDY MOORE I do think it's possible to change for the better. MANDY MOORE Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not ... MANDY MOORE It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeo... MANDY MOORE We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th... MANDY MOORE I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organizati... MANDY MOORE Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you. MANDY MOORE Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my expe... MANDY MOORE Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global h... MANDY MOORE In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school a... MANDY MOORE I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The fi... MANDY MOORE Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life. MANDY MOORE People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in... MANDY MOORE The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not pr... MANDY MOORE Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potentia... MANDY MOORE There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytel... MANDY MOORE I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am. MANDY MOORE No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any re... THURSTON MOORE The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... MICHAEL MOORE There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid... ALAN MOORE Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. MARIANNE MOORE I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school. RICH MOORE I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'... MICHAEL MOORE Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ... MICHAEL MOORE Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m... ROGER MOORE War is a perversion of sex. ALAN MOORE If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When y... ALAN MOORE Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr... ALAN MOORE Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language... ALAN MOORE To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un... ALAN MOORE To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christi... ALAN MOORE In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i... ALAN MOORE Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. ALAN MOORE Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir... ALAN MOORE Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch... ALAN MOORE I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. ROGER MOORE Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to wh... SHEMAR MOORE