Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Business Quotes, Writing Quotes

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

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What is moral is what you feel good after.

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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

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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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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

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Never confuse movement with action.

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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

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