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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t].

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

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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Inflation
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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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God
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. – Miguel de Cervantes

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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I try to leave out the parts that people skip. – Elmore Leonard

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Writing

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. – Mark Twain

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Faith

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. – Lafcadio Hearn

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First rule of politics: you cant win unless youre on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Ive been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. – Jamie Lee Curtis

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Age