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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
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