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Quotations by author » Ernest Hemingway
American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961 |
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| When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. |
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| When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. |
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| When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. |
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| When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. |
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| Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? |
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| Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. |
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| Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a |
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| You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. |
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| You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. |
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| You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran in |
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| You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. |
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| You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer |
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| [In 1941,] For Whom the Bell Tolls ... a style so mannered and eccentric as to be frequently absurd |
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