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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before, and not too damned much after.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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