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Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition

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Ernest Hemingway

12 highlights · 1 note · last read January 2023

Highlights I wrote a note on are shown in full. The other 11 are scrambled: the words are the author's, so here you only see where in the book I underlined something.

“And why has it not been written?” “Because there are too many factors. First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must be the conception of what it can be and an absolute conscience as unchanging as the standard meter in Paris, to prevent faking. Then the writer must be intelligent and disinterested and above all he must survive. Try to get all these in one person and have him come through all the influences that press on a writer. The hardest thing, because time is so short, is for him to survive and get his work done. But I would like us to have such a writer and to read what he would write. What do you say? Should we talk about something else?”

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