More from Ernest Hemingway

  1. All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
  2. Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
  3. One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.
  4. Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. B…
  5. As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea…
  6. The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. T…
  7. 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 bu…
  8. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The ba…

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