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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
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