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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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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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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
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