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“Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; […]

The issue here is not class envy but class entrenchment. The fact that they were born rich is irrelevant. They had no choice in the matter. But the fact that they appear to want to give even more to those who already have a great deal while denying much to those who have little is […]

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers. E. Hemingway, as told to G. Plimpton, Spring 1958, the Paris Review

On symbolism: It is hard enough to write books and stories without being asked to explain them as well. Also it deprives the explainers of work. If five or six or more good explainers can keep going why should I interfere with them? Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else […]

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. –E. Hemingway, as told to George Plimpton, Spring 1958, the Paris Review

[…T]hese tokens have their value, just as three buffalo horns Hemingway keeps in his bedroom have a value dependent not on size but because during the acquiring of them things went badly in the bush, yet ultimately turned out well. “It cheers me up to look at them,” he says. Hemingway may admit superstitions of […]