Tag: Ernest Hemingway
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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
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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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