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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. "
Ernest Hemingway
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" The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. "
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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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" I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. "
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" The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "
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