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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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