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Firsts Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one…
- Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
- The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to…
- I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been…
- The first draft of anything is sh*t.
- Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
- When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then…
- I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore…
- When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no…
- 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…
- All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent…
- To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
- When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the…
- The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
- I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
- In order to write about life first you must live it.
- He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever…
- The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal…
- He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being…
- One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
- Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn.…
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