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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

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. – Ernest Hemingway

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Life
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Ernest Hemingway
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. – Ernest Hemingway

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Success
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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

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Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. – Fay Weldon

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then thats their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. – Mario Andretti

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The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. – Raymond Duncan

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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