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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
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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.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
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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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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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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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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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