Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
Ernest HemingwayA girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.
Ernest HemingwayI thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
Ernest HemingwayIf the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
Ernest HemingwayEverything kills everything else in some way.
Ernest HemingwayThere is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
Ernest HemingwayThere is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
(Interview with Paris Review, 1958)
Stichwörter: writing creative-process completeness omission
One cat just leads to another."
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Stichwörter: cats
Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
Ernest HemingwayFor luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
Ernest HemingwayStichwörter: paris luck cities
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