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" I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. "
Ernest Hemingway
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" Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. "
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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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" 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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" You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. "
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