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3251 When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters Ernest Hemingway
3250 By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. Ernest Hemingway
3249 I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that Ernest Hemingway
3248 As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic Ernest Hemingway
3247 Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Hemingway
3246 you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. Ernest Hemingway
3245 Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they lov Ernest Hemingway
3244 When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to Ernest Hemingway
3243 Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Rom Ernest Hemingway
3242 If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway
3241 Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? Ernest Hemingway
3240 There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; somet Ernest Hemingway
3239 All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time Ernest Hemingway
3238 Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks Ernest Hemingway
3237 After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had Ernest Hemingway
3236 It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think Ernest Hemingway
3235 And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any differenc Ernest Hemingway
3234 Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. Ernest Hemingway
3232 His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfl Ernest Hemingway
3231 They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country Ernest Hemingway
3230 When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. Ernest Hemingway
3229 If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you Ernest Hemingway
3228 But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. Ernest Hemingway
3227 In order to write about life first you must live it. Ernest Hemingway
3226 It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at nig Ernest Hemingway
3225 The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detect Ernest Hemingway
3224 Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-st Ernest Hemingway
3223 Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway
3222 About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and wha Ernest Hemingway
3221 The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. Ernest Hemingway
3220 The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
3219 But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeat Ernest Hemingway
3218 You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Ernest Hemingway
3217 Isn't it pretty to think so. Ernest Hemingway
3216 A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, m Ernest Hemingway
3215 Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime Ernest Hemingway
3214 You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves f Ernest Hemingway
3213 My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simple Ernest Hemingway
3212 An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway
3211 The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be Ernest Hemingway
3209 I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken Ernest Hemingway
3208 As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. Ernest Hemingway
3207 All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that yo Ernest Hemingway
3206 There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. Ernest Hemingway
3204 Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway
3202 If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to brea Ernest Hemingway
3201 Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemingway
3200 Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especial Ernest Hemingway
3199 Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and h Ernest Hemingway
3198 It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, Ernest Hemingway
3197 There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is be Ernest Hemingway
3196 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
3195 The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway
3193 The first draft of anything is shit. Ernest Hemingway
3192 Write drunk; edit sober. Ernest Hemingway
3191 I drink to make other people more interesting. Ernest Hemingway
3190 Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your m Ernest Hemingway
3189 I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway
3188 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway
3187 Women and elephants never forget. Dorothy Parker
3186 I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come tog Dorothy Parker
3185 A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. Dorothy Parker
3184 Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutc Dorothy Parker
3181 So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'" Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer af Dorothy Parker
3180 If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my h Dorothy Parker
3179 Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tom Dorothy Parker
3178 Time doth flit; oh shit. Dorothy Parker
3177 I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would i Dorothy Parker
3175 There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; Dorothy Parker
3173 If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you. Dorothy Parker
3171 I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never Dorothy Parker
3170 Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. Dorothy Parker
3168 I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. Dorothy Parker
3167 And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. Dorothy Parker
3166 Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. Dorothy Parker
3165 Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like m Dorothy Parker
3164 She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. Dorothy Parker
3163 This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with Dorothy Parker
3161 Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. Dorothy Parker
3160 I hate writing, I love having written. Dorothy Parker
3159 That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, i Dorothy Parker
3158 Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa. Dorothy Parker
3157 If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall st Dorothy Parker
3156 You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. Dorothy Parker
3155 What fresh hell is this? Dorothy Parker
3154 Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker
3153 I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the tabl Dorothy Parker
3148 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great f Dorothy Parker
3147 The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. Dorothy Parker
3146 If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it Dorothy Parker
3145 The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker
3144 We are asleep until we fall in Love! Leo Tolstoy
3143 Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not f Leo Tolstoy
3142 I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and da Leo Tolstoy
3141 Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and Leo Tolstoy
3140 I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, thou Leo Tolstoy
3139 It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally b Leo Tolstoy
3138 To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. Leo Tolstoy
3137 Love those you hate you. Leo Tolstoy
3136 Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has as Leo Tolstoy
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters — Ernest Hemingway
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. — Ernest Hemingway
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that — Ernest Hemingway
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic — Ernest Hemingway
Write hard and clear about what hurts. — Ernest Hemingway
you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. — Ernest Hemingway
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they lov — Ernest Hemingway
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to — Ernest Hemingway
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Rom — Ernest Hemingway
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. — Ernest Hemingway
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? — Ernest Hemingway
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; somet — Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time — Ernest Hemingway
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks — Ernest Hemingway
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had — Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think — Ernest Hemingway
And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any differenc — Ernest Hemingway
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. — Ernest Hemingway
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfl — Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country — Ernest Hemingway
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. — Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you — Ernest Hemingway
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. — Ernest Hemingway
In order to write about life first you must live it. — Ernest Hemingway
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at nig — Ernest Hemingway
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detect — Ernest Hemingway
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-st — Ernest Hemingway
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. — Ernest Hemingway
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and wha — Ernest Hemingway
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. — Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeat — Ernest Hemingway
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. — Ernest Hemingway
Isn't it pretty to think so. — Ernest Hemingway
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, m — Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime — Ernest Hemingway
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves f — Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simple — Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be — Ernest Hemingway
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken — Ernest Hemingway
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. — Ernest Hemingway
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that yo — Ernest Hemingway
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. — Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure. — Ernest Hemingway
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to brea — Ernest Hemingway
Never confuse movement with action. — Ernest Hemingway
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especial — Ernest Hemingway
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and h — Ernest Hemingway
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, — Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is be — Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. — Ernest Hemingway
The first draft of anything is shit. — Ernest Hemingway
Write drunk; edit sober. — Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your m — Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? — Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — Ernest Hemingway
Women and elephants never forget. — Dorothy Parker
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come tog — Dorothy Parker
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. — Dorothy Parker
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutc — Dorothy Parker
So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'" Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer af — Dorothy Parker
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my h — Dorothy Parker
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tom — Dorothy Parker
Time doth flit; oh shit. — Dorothy Parker
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would i — Dorothy Parker
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; — Dorothy Parker
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you. — Dorothy Parker
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never — Dorothy Parker
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker
I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. — Dorothy Parker
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. — Dorothy Parker
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like m — Dorothy Parker
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. — Dorothy Parker
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with — Dorothy Parker
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. — Dorothy Parker
I hate writing, I love having written. — Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, i — Dorothy Parker
Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa. — Dorothy Parker
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall st — Dorothy Parker
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. — Dorothy Parker
What fresh hell is this? — Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. — Dorothy Parker
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the tabl — Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great f — Dorothy Parker
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. — Dorothy Parker
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it — Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker
We are asleep until we fall in Love! — Leo Tolstoy
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not f — Leo Tolstoy
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and da — Leo Tolstoy
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and — Leo Tolstoy
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, thou — Leo Tolstoy
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally b — Leo Tolstoy
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. — Leo Tolstoy
Love those you hate you. — Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has as — Leo Tolstoy