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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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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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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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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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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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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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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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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick camp-following eunuchs of literature.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
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