Ernest Hemingway Collection

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    “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.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “Oh no, it wasn’t the aviators, it was beauty that killed the beast.”
    —James Creelman, screenwriter, Ruth Rose, screenwriter, Merian Cooper, and Ernest Schoedsack. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)

    “I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
    —18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)