| The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| Never mistake motion for action. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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| Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. |
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- Ernest Hemingway |
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