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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
«The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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And One, as good as, damn, lucky, overhear, overheard, overhears, parts, the Wrecks, wreck, wrecking, writer
«You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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blank, invent, in writing, obligation, palpable, prose, reads, reference, references, roughest, sheet, sheet of paper, trade, truer, with reference to
«I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.»
«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.»
«You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer»
«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.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Events
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altering, assume, invention, obligation, participated, participating, presumption, presumptions
«Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Big Picture, epic, epics, eschew, eschewed, guys, monumental, paint, paint a picture, pictures, shun, shunned, shunning, The Big Picture