Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Time
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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