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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
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I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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