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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. "
Ernest Hemingway
Kid
Successful
Two
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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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Death
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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. "
Ernest Hemingway
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Honor
Difficult
" 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. "
Ernest Hemingway
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Down
Wake Up
" I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? "
Ernest Hemingway
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My Life
Love
" Wars are caused by undefended wealth. "
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War
Wars
" 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
" 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
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Writing
Time
" All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. "
Ernest Hemingway
Than
One Thing
Good
" I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. "
Ernest Hemingway
Now
Know
One Thing
" 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
" There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. "
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One Thing
True
Thing
" 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
" The shortest answer is doing the thing. "
Ernest Hemingway
Answer
Shortest
Doing
" There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. "
Ernest Hemingway
Write
Events
Great
" 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
Girl
Looking
Fishing
" My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. "
Ernest Hemingway
Aim
See
Way
" When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. "
Ernest Hemingway
Living
Character
People
" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "
Ernest Hemingway
War
Think
Never
" No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. "
Ernest Hemingway
Just
Moral
Problem
" Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. "
Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation
Risk
Proportion
" Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. "
Ernest Hemingway
Put
You
Like
" That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. "
Ernest Hemingway
Depression
Artist
Mood
" Man is not made for defeat. "
Ernest Hemingway
Failure
Man
Defeat
" I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "
Ernest Hemingway
Ring
Get
Going
" 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. "
Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Afraid
More
" Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness
People
Know
" 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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Defeat
Worse
" Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. "
Ernest Hemingway
Mind
Like
Travel
" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "
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Failure
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" All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. "
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