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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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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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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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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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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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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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