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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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More quotes by Ernest Hemingway
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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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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Man is not made for defeat.
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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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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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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.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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