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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick camp-following eunuchs of literature.Letter () published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker.
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You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible."The Age Demanded" in Der Querschnitt (February 1925) as quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1983) by Noel Riley Fitch.Letter (6 December 1924) published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker.A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.Letter (1924) to Ezra Pound published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker, p."Trout Fishing in Europe" The Toronto Star Weekly (17 November 1923).Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.Only 19 years old at the time, Hemingway was recovering from wounds suffered at the front line while serving as a Red Cross volunteer. It was also published in The Oak Parker (Oak Park, IL) on 16 November 1918. Letter to his family (18 October 1918) published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker.And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
