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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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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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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 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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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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