As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
ERNEST HEMINGWAYThere are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
More Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
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The first draft of anything is shit.
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Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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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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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.
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