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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water
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Ernest Hemingway |
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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ...
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism."
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war
spain
fascism
communism
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But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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precision
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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war
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...
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Ernest Hemingway |
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We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the ..
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war
sacrifice
propaganda
honor
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...
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Ernest Hemingway |
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
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What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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life
insprational
today
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Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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the-old-man-and-the-sea
hemingway
hard-work
preparation
luck
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Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ou..
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know
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writing
inspirational
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Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.
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It's funny," I said. "It's very funny. And it's a lot of fun, too, to be in love." "Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again. "I don't mean fun that way. In a way it's an enjoyable feeling." "No," she said. "I think it's hell on earth."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be..
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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yankees
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Please do it your own way. Do it in the mornings when your mind is cold Do it in the evenings when everything is sold. Do it in the springtime when springtime isn't there Do it in the winter We know winter well Do it on very hot days Try doing it in hell. Trade bed for a pencil Trade sorrow for a page No work it out your own way Have good luck at your age.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.
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love
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Ernest Hemingway |
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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love
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