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Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.


Ernest A. Jones

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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
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ERNEST JONES The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roa...
ERNEST A. FITZGERALD There is always a way to go if you look for it.
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FLORENCE A. JONES Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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A. A. MILNE Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
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A. A. MILNE Silence is a text easy to misread.
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A. A. MILNE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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A. A. MILNE The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
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A. A. MILNE Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A. How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A. Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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A. A. MILNE "How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A. The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
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A. A. MILNE I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
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A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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A. A. MILNE An Expedition to the North Pole.
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A. A. MILNE No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
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A. A. HODGE Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
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A. A. MILNE For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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A. A. MILNE Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Time is the least thing we have of.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Man is not made for defeat.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY We are gods with anuses.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the lice...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
ERNEST DIMNET What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET Man makes holy what he believes.
ERNEST RENAN You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it k...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creati...
ERNEST BARBARIC I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.
ERNEST DOWSON A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
ERNEST RENAN All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
ERNEST DIMNET When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
ERNEST RENAN I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...
ERNEST DIMNET Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET