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Literary Insults Plato was a bore. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. ~Leo Tolstoy I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ~Ernest Hemingway He (Hemingway) has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. ~William Faulkner Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? ~Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was a jerk. ~Harold Robbins That’s not writing, that’s typing. ~Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac Truman Capote’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. ~Gore Vidal Image Via


Literary Insults

  1. Plato was a bore. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
  2. Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. ~Leo Tolstoy
  3. I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ~Ernest Hemingway
  4. He (Hemingway) has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. ~William Faulkner
  5. Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? ~Ernest Hemingway
  6. Hemingway was a jerk. ~Harold Robbins
  7. That’s not writing, that’s typing. ~Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac
  8. Truman Capote’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. ~Gore Vidal

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