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Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Architecture

Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Hope

Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

War

Ernest Hemingway

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

God