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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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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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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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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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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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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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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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