Would you read it? Your novel? Yeah, it's about 400 pages long, and I'm just looking for...
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Gil:
Would you read it?
Ernest Hemingway:
Your novel?
Gil:
Yeah, it's about 400 pages long, and I'm just looking for an opinion.
Ernest Hemingway:
My opinion is I hate it.
Gil:
Well you haven't even read it yet.
Ernest Hemingway:
If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing, and if it's good, I'll be envious and hate all the more. You don't want the opinion of another writer.
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What is it Would you read it
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Your novel Yeah it's like
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400 pages long and I'm just looking for you know an opinion
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My opinion is I hate it
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I mean you haven't even read it
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If it's bad I'll hate it because I hate bad writing
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and if it's good I'll be envious and hate it all the more You don't want the opinion of another writer
Clip duration: 23 seconds
Views: 139
Timestamp in movie: 00h 26m 41s
Uploaded: 25 March, 2022
Genres: comedy, fantasy, romance
Summary: While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
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00:13 We all fear death and question our place in the universe
00:33 You know nostalgia is denial
00:30 I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite...
00:36 I can never decide whether
00:11 No subject is terrible if the story is true
00:14 We saw a wonderfully funny American film
00:29 Gil Gil Pender Gil Pender
00:09 That's what the present is
00:31 These people don't have any antibiotics
00:37 The assignment was to take the hill There were 4 of us
00:09 The artist's job is not to succumb to despair
00:06 Yeah you're surrealists
00:05 Women are only to sleep with or to paint
00:07 You always take the side of the help as usual
00:11 That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live
00:09 If you're a writer declare yourself the best writer
00:06 You're in love with a fantasy
00:17 I think a woman is equal to a man in courage
00:05 Inez you can fool me but you cannot fool Hemingway
00:12 But he did have one plot suggestion