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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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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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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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