From Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American novelist, short story writer, and journalist; letter (23 July 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker:
It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
From Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, A Farewell to Arms (1929):
I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
From Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, The Sun Also Rises (1926):
‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked.
‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’
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From Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, New York Journal-American (11 July 1961):
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
