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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American writer

I used to try to write better than certain dead writers of whose value I was certain. For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

¶ "Interview with Ernest Hemingway," George Plimpton, The Paris Review #18 (Spring 1958)

Reprinted in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin (2002)

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Courage is grace under pressure.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

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Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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Cowardice … is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you're any good.

Green Hills of Africa

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Never confuse movement with action.

Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir, to A.E. Hotchner (1967).

Remark to Marlene Dietrich, quoted by her.

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