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" 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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" From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. "
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You
Alive
" I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. "
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" To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. "
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Two
" All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. "
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American
Book
Literature
" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "
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Think
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" Never mistake motion for action. "
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Never
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" If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. "
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Dignity
" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "
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Know
" I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. "
Ernest Hemingway
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Feel Good
Feel
" His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. "
Ernest Hemingway
Butterfly
Know
Talent
" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "
Ernest Hemingway
Great
People
Listening
" 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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Death
Art
Artist
" A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. "
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Man
Book
Write
" If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. "
Ernest Hemingway
Enough
Rest
You
" The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. "
Ernest Hemingway
Best
Best Way
Trust
" You're beautiful, like a May fly. "
Ernest Hemingway
Like
You
May
" The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. "
Ernest Hemingway
Place
World
Hate
" They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. "
Ernest Hemingway
Sweet
War
You
" Time is the least thing we have of. "
Ernest Hemingway
Thing
Least
Time
" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "
Ernest Hemingway
Decoration
Interior
Over
" That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. "
Ernest Hemingway
Will
Best
Happen
" You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. "
Ernest Hemingway
Love
Writing
Time
" For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. "
Ernest Hemingway
Time
Best
Good Luck
" When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write. "
Ernest Hemingway
Morning
I Am
Cool
" When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. "
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Living
Character
People
" I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. "
Ernest Hemingway
Zoo
People
Animals
" There is no friend as loyal as a book. "
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Book
Friend
Loyal
" An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. "
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Time
Man
Fools
" I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "
Ernest Hemingway
Ring
Get
Going
" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "
Ernest Hemingway
Stories
Keep
Enough