Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Abuse Quotes, Afternoon Quotes

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

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Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

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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 about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

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All thinking men are atheists.

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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

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But did thee feel the earth move?

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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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