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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. "

Ernest Hemingway

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" I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. "

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" I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "

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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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" The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. "

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" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

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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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" Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. "

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" I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? "

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" All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. "

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" Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. "

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" The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. "

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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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" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "

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" All our words from loose using have lost their edge. "

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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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" Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. "

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" No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. "

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" Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. "

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" The shortest answer is doing the thing. "

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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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" The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. "

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" As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. "

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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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" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "

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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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" 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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" It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. "

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