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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

Topics: Absolute Father First Kid Look Rule Successful Two Years You

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Edge Loose Lost Our Using Words

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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

Topics: Down Fast Get Making Mind Morning Rid Sentences Starts Talk Them Up Wake Wake Up Write

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Always Bloody Confounded Even Hawk May Owl Serious Solemn Writer

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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.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Any Brings Defeat Ever Happen Must Once One Thing Only Only One Thing Than Thing Things War Won Worse

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When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: After Am Book Cold Come Cool Disturb Every First Light Morning Possible Soon Story Warm Work Working Write You Your I Am I Write

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On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Anyone Could Forced Gets Harm He Help Him Learn Newspaper Out Sentence Simple Star Time Useful Were Will Work Write Writer You Young

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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

Topics: Aircraft Burns Certainly Conditioned Crash Difficult Ever He Him Honor Important Important Things Learns Quickly Several Survival Things Trained Use Valuable Very Whether Which Will Word Writer

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Know Now One Thing Thing True

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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

Topics: Afraid Book Come Consider Could Hope Less More Much Next Out Perhaps Profane Profanity Reduce Reduced Sacred Simply Tried Will Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1961

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