"Wearing down seven number two pencils is..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
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“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
“To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.”
“What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.”
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“The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.”
“The biggest thing I have to keep in mind is balance. I have certain times and days that I dedicate to certain responsibilities. It is very important to not become unbalanced in an area, spending too much time in one area and not another.”
“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”