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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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