Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Butterfly Quotes, Wings Quotes

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

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The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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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 be sure of going on the next day.

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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

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But did thee feel the earth move?

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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

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Never confuse motions with action.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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