"Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa."
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Ernest Hemingway quotes (page 40 of 40)
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"You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight."
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"I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you"
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"I am like a blind pig when I work."
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"My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing."
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"If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen."
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"Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves."
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"Never confuse motions with action."
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"I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply."
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"Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet."
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"One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]"
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"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion."
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"I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent."
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"No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it."
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"There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate."
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"You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad."
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"This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed."
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"Your blood coagulates beautifully."
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