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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
Ernest Hemingway
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
Ernest Hemingway -
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
Ernest Hemingway -
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
Ernest Hemingway
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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway -
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
Ernest Hemingway -
No one ever stopped when they were winning.
Ernest Hemingway -
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
Ernest Hemingway -
I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
Ernest Hemingway
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Ernest Hemingway -
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway -
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway -
The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
Ernest Hemingway -
And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
Ernest Hemingway -
All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
Ernest Hemingway
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
Ernest Hemingway