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Better Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their…
- In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about…
- My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet…
- The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
- A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have…
- For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I…
- They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make…
- It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
- Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right.…
- By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by…
- Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
- it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know…
- We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There…
- There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you…
- When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a…
- 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…
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