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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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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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