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Ernest Hemingway

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  1. If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eight of it being above water. a writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing

    Ernest Hemingway
  2. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

    Ernest Hemingway
  3. As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand

    Ernest Hemingway
  4. When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead

    Ernest Hemingway
  5. The first draft of anything is shit

    Ernest Hemingway
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