American - Novelist | July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest Hemingway
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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