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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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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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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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I am always in love.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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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 fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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