"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time)."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.”
“I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.”

Source : "Philip Levine, former US poet laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 87". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2015.
“I like down-to-earth people.”

Source : "Exclusive: Amos Lee Gets Personal". Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 26, 2011.
“Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.”
“I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.”
“I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.”
“It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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