Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Two Quotes

The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

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My big fish must be somewhere.

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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

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No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

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