American - Novelist | July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
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Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
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On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
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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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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
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