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Done Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult…
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…
- All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we…
- Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are…
- What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
- When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then…
- 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…
- The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept…
- The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something…
- Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
- I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them,…
- I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of…
- I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could…
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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- The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'. — John Ashcroft
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