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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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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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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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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.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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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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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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