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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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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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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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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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