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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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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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A bottle of wine was good company.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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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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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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