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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
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 parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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Not the why but the what.
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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