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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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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'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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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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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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