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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
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