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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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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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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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