Quote by Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participa

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway

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I dont like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you cant do it. – Ernest Hemingway

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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. – Ernest Hemingway

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The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. – Ernest Hemingway

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. – Mitt Romney

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. – Orson Welles

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