All good books are alike in that they .. Ernest Hemingway

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

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Ernest Hemingway

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American

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Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

He went out and I heard him laughing in the hall. I heard some.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...

The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

He killed more men than the cholera.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

You're really about the best friend I have, Jake. God help you, I thought.

In any art you're allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.

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