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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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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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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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