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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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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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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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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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