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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 is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the worlds shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. – Edward O. Wilson

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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

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

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