It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thelondonlights)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
—Ernest Hemingway (via misswallflower)
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If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them.
—The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (via thatkindofwoman)
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
—Ernest Hemingway (via thatkindofwoman)
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best- make it all up- but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Goddamn it you took liberties with people’s pasts and futures and produced not people but damned marvellously faked case histories. You, who can write better than anybody can, who are so lousy with talent that you have to- the hell with it. Scott for gods sake write and write truly no matter who or what it hurts but do not make these silly compromises.
—Earnest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934 (via exceptionallyread)
Ernest and Gregory.
