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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
Ernest Hemingway
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Ernest Hemingway
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
Ernest Hemingway
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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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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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
Ernest Hemingway
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
Ernest Hemingway
Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
Ernest Hemingway
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
Ernest Hemingway
You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
Ernest Hemingway
