Who knows what my shadow does while I sleep? Does he rest, too? Or does he caper on the chamber wall, performing cartwheels and somersaults? Does he take a moonlight shower? Does he then preen himself a little, gazing at his reflection in the windowpane? And when the witching hour comes, does he bid my … Continue reading The Romance of Our Shadows
INTERVIEWER What would you consider the best intellectual training for the would-be writer? HEMINGWAY Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for … Continue reading The Best Intellectual Training For a Writer According to Ernest Hemingway
“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.” ― … Continue reading The Voyage of Your Life
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