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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

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"You're beautiful, like a May fly."	Love
"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."	Art
"All good books have one thing in common-they are truer than if they had really happened."	Art
"If a writer … knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows…. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."	Art
"When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."	Art
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."	Art
"As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself."	Wisdom
"The first draft of anything is shit."	Wisdom
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."	Anti-Religion, War
"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."	Anti-Religion, War

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