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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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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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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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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
Ernest Hemingway
Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
Ernest Hemingway
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
Ernest Hemingway
My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
Ernest Hemingway
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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