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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

~Erma Bombeck

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I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Atari Childhood Computer First Got Most Spent Until

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I was always obsessed with the 'Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits - 'Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League' - and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Adventures Against Always Because Before Box Box Office Credits Crime Cult End First First One Going Had Instinctively Knew League Like Little Made Make Movie Never Obsessed Office Promised Sequel Weird Were World

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'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Characters Ever First My Own Original Own Real Screenplay Story Wrote

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Bird Birds Different Different Ways First Fly Flying Good Last Same Sensation Shot Ways You

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Both Bring Currency Economic First Inflation Nation Panacea Permanent Political Prosperity Refuge Ruin Second Temporary War

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When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Badly Boy First First Time Get Go Great Happen Illusion Immortality Know Lose Other People Then Time War Wounded You

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: All My Life First First Time Life Looked My Life Seeing Them Though Time Were Words

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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Absolute Father First Kid Look Rule Successful Two Years You

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When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: After Am Book Cold Come Cool Disturb Every First Light Morning Possible Soon Story Warm Work Working Write You Your I Am I Write

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