Interesting Quotes from Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.


"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."

-The old waiter of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)


"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

-On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson
(note: tell that to your GP tutor.)


"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

-Letter (9 July 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway : Selected Letters 1917-1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker


"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

-New York Journal-American (11 July 1961)


"If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

-As quoted in That Summer in Paris (1963) by Morley Callaghan


"If a writer … knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows…. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

As quoted in A Second Flowering (1973) by Malcolm Cowley


"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

-Statement to his future wife Mary Welsh, recalled in her obituaries (26 November 1986)





"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
Pt. 1, Ch. 3





"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."




"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"




"Even when I was in a crowd, I was always alone."





"The first draft of anything is shit."





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I'm quite unhappy with hc life right now. Tutorials, tutorials, tests, and no sleep. Hai.

But I must say that I was quite lucky yesterday morning. The morning assembly in school, unfortunately, started at 7.30 SHARP...



which was the exact time I stepped into school and realised that all of the late-birds were maniacally flocking towards the central plaza. Being sleep-deprived, I just walked.



When I reached the canteen, I saw Yiting, some guys and 2 teachers standing still. The national anthem played softly in the background.

CRAP.



Hehe, I was late! (for the first time in my already sucky jc life! =D )



Later, we had to surrender our ez-link cards to my PE teacher. Heehee. But then the most miraculous thing happened.



A huge hoard of latecomers flooded the latecomers' area. Wheehee! Then Mr Ken Yeow announced that we wouldn't be getting demerit points due to "heavy traffic conditions".



THAT WAS SO NICE OF HIM!!! Thanks Mr Yeow!

(despite his not so nice haircut, which was reminiscent of Mr Yong's pineapple-crew cut 2 years ago)



Damn heng. Must force myself to wake up early in the future.



Went to survey some kids and parents today with my robotics group for CenTaD on Friday! :D It was really fun. Running around and getting rejected occasionally didn't discourage us. Hehe. And I noticed that men don't like to participate in surveys. The ones who talked to us were mothers... fathers were generally not too happy to see us. Haha!

Toys R' Us had a plethora of robotic toys... at a price. Usually around $100 for those higher-end ones with better functions. Eg. BabyAlive. The robotic baby eats doll food and poops it out. Besides that, her mouth moves! LIKE A REAL BABY! Which can be quite freaky at night, I think. =P The visit turned out to feel like a shopping trip, but it did give us a much better idea of what functions commercial robots for children offer.

And surveying was tough. Or rather the beginning was tough. It's just so difficult to initiate a conversation! :( However, when we finally got started, I realised that hey... parents are mostly friendly people. :D

My centad group rocks, can?! :D They are two of the best people I've met in hc so far. We got flamed (badly) for our presentation during the centad conference on wednesday, but we remained optimistic and happy. (in fact we laughed when we got flamed. hahahahaa) Okay. Maybe our presentation wasn't superb, but our team dynamics are really strong. Unlike the other groups, we are not ripping out the uterus-es of lab rats and other gory/boring things. We're actually HAVING FUN! Hahaha. With more effort, I'm sure that we can conquer the other groups. muahahhahahaha
SSEF here we come
muahahahahhahaha

But we wouldn't be achieving much without Hewei and Prof. Ge. So kudos to both of them!

And just some things of interest to me that I encountered in school this week.

-Jingbin's daily 'cool walk' down the central plaza in the morning
-Jianwei is president of HACAS! I just discovered that, I don't believe myself.
and of course his quote. "You don't know if you don't try."

It's pretty overused, but it's true. :)