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Ernest Hemingway

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Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"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."
"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."
"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
"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."
"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."