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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 suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips they were closed tight.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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