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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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 make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick camp-following eunuchs of literature.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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