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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That terrible mood of depression of whether its any good or not is what is known as The Artists Reward. – Ernest Hemingway

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. – 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 fewer the words, the better the prayer. – Martin Luther

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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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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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Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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