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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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