"I believe that basically you write for..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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“Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”
“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”
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“I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.”
“The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.”
“The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.”