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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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Never confuse motions with action.
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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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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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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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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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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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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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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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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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