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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
Ernest Hemingway
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
It's a town you come to for a short time.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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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 would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
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I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.
Ernest Hemingway
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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Never mistake movement for action
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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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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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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