The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAYCritics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
More Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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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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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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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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Every day above earth is a good day.
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No one you love is ever truly lost.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
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Work could cure almost anything.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.
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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
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You must be prepared to work always without applause.
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Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.
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A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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