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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Never mistake motive for action.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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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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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
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The bulls are my best friends. I translated to Brett. You kill your friends? she asked. Always, he said in English, and laughed. So they don't kill me.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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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.
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