Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Firsts Quotes

First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.

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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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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 had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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