Tag: Ernest Hemingway

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

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Never confuse movement with action.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

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Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave.

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