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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before, and not too damned much after.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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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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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 little we know of what there is to know.
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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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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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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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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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