Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.
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If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
