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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The

It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway

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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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There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games. – Ernest Hemingway

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway

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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books — what other men do not say in whole books. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B. B. King

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