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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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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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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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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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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
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