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

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Death Exact Fear Increase Increases Proportion Wealth

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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: After Bad Feel Feel Good Good Immoral Know Moral Only You

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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

Topics: Altering Assume Events Great His Invention Obligation Presumption Rather Than Them Truly Which Write Writer

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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

Topics: Bin Crazy Like Poet Poets Pound Put You

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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

Topics: About Alone Any Best Certainly Enough Interrupt Leave Love People Rather Ruthless Time Time People Will Write Writing You

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Aim Best Down Feel Paper Put See Simplest Way I See I Feel

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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Allowed Deal Game Golf Great Great Deal Green Lose Putting Were Would

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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.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Born Business How Learn None Them Think Way Were Write You

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There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Charges Drilling Easily How Like Out Perfectly Rock Rule Sometimes Then Write

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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Always Another Chance Chances Clean Correct Day Different Each Each Day Else Finished Get Go Grateful Last Naturally Over Over It Point Rewrite See Someone Stopped Type Types Up Where You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1961

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