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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.
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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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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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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
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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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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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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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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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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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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
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