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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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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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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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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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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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