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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
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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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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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The bulls are my best friends. I translated to Brett. You kill your friends? she asked. Always, he said in English, and laughed. So they don't kill me.
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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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