“One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.”
Papa Hemingway (1966)
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American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) Russian military commander
other version: One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
"Encyclopedia of Russian History" - Page 1504 by James R. Millar - Soviet Union - 2004.
John F. Kerry (1943) politician from the United States
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh100204.shtml<br> http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2004/09/fumble_on_the_kerry.2.html <br class="br">Misattributed
Aldous Huxley book Point Counter Point
Variant: A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Source: Point Counter Point
Norman Schwarzkopf (1934–2012) United States Army general
Interview with Barbara Walters (15 March 1991); also quoted in his memoir It Doesn't Take a Hero : General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Autobiography (1992), p. xiii
“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate