Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.