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#1

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writers, writing-advice

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#2

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”
― Elmore Leonard

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#3

“it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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#4

“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

tags: inspirational

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#5

“It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.”
― Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky

tags: plausibility

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#6

“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

tags: god, humor, religion

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#7

“"Wonderful things can happen", Vincent said, "when you plant seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes."”
― Elmore Leonard, Glitz

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#8

“How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? LII.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#9

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing

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#10

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#11

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

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#12

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#13

“Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.”
― Ernest Hemingway, On Writing

tags: writing-advice

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#14

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing-advice

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#15

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#16

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#17

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing-life

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#18

“But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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#19

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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#20

“Discipline equals freedom.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

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#21

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#22

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#23

“Billy Ray knew scary men and they didn’t wear visors. This man had never been in a fight in his life. Billy Ray could feel it, it was like a smell: the bravery of ignorance. This man had never been dominated by another. He’d never known the crude intimacy of violence, never felt the fear of laying on his back wondering if the boot would come to his temple or his throat. He was weak, of a generation of false vipers.”
― Sam Tallent, Running the Light

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#24

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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#25

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#26

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#27

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

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#28

“Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
― George Orwell

tags: conformity, fanaticism, gender-differences, radicalization

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