write the truest sentence you know

“Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.'” Ernest Hemingway

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1 Response to write the truest sentence you know

  1. Shaharee's avatar Shaharee says:

    “I don’t know it anymore” would be the truest sentence I know (even when this statement contains some illogical circular construct).

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