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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All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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Life
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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – 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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If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Brevity

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

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Brevity

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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Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. – William Shakespeare

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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. – Tom Allen

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Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. – Andrea Dworkin

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Faith

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a childs success is the positive involvement of parents. – Jane D. Hull

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parenting

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. Youre not out of it until the computer says youre out of it. – Erma Bombeck

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