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Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) :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. Death in the Afternoon All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writting comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. The Green Hills of Africa, Ch. 1 Courage is grace under pressure. Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her To Have and Have Not I drink to make other people more interesting. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Never mistake motion for action. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love. A Moveable Feast Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. The Sun Also Rises 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. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them. The Short Stories She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Write drunk; edit sober.
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