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#1

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19428 likes

#2

“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

5373 likes

#3

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15059 likes

#4

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats

1589 likes

#5

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: the-sun-also-rises

1395 likes

#6

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

1069 likes

#7

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

tags: writing-life

912 likes

#8

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

7865 likes

#9

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5884 likes

#10

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

6590 likes

#11

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

3515 likes

#12

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

3215 likes

#13

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

2800 likes

#14

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

1871 likes

#15

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

1709 likes

#16

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

1692 likes

#17

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

tags: writing-life

897 likes

#18

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22083 likes

#19

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

3088 likes

#20

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: truth

1559 likes

#21

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

1325 likes

#22

“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1130 likes

#23

“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

586 likes

#24

“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: self

380 likes

#25

“I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
― J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France

tags: books, introvert, solitude

441 likes

#26

“I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

229 likes

#27

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

2059 likes

#28

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: style

346 likes

#29

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: euphemisms, language, political-correctness, politics, propoganda

272 likes

#30

“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”
― Gore Vidal

tags: writing

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