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Ernest Hemingway Quotes

«The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.»
«Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.»
«Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your»
«Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).»
«In order to write about life, first you must live it!»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Life | Keywords: write about
«Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.»
«Drinking is a way of ending the day»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Drinking
«His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.»
«The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over»
«It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.»

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