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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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More quotes by Ernest Hemingway
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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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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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
Ernest Hemingway
Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
Religion is the opium of the poor.
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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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I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?
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