Farewell To Arms Quotes - Page 3

• Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

  Robert Reed

  Book, Reading, Farewell

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• War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

  David Mamet

  War, Farewell, Tragedy

  "TheDC Interviews: David Mamet talks War". Interview with Patrick Howley, dailycaller.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Farewell, Writing, Arms

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