Ernest Hemingway Quotes
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.
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You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.
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Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
