Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
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I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee', and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
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I am old-fashioned enough to retain David Hume’s view that one can never derive 'ought' propositions from 'is' propositions. The two issues, method and value, are distinct.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
