Favorite Quotes

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world — or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin.

—Ernest Hemingway, as quoted in Ernest Hemingway: On Writing

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…each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

—Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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Some people call me lazy, but they are Wrong. … After I first learned it was possible to sleep late and go to work at Two in the afternoon, and still get Paid for it, I never did anything else.

—Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

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