A. E. Hotchner Quotes

#1. Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

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#2. Why is it...that the good things that pop up almost always get clobbered by these miserable darn things that seem to choke out everything like stinkweed?

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#3. Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

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#4. Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

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#5. There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

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#6. He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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#7. Poverty is a disease that's cured by the medicine of money.

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#8. From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

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#9. Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

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#10. We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

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