Opinion Matters; 1.3.3 Text:1
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The 1954 Noble Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) for his mastery of the art narrative, demonstrated in “The Old Man and the Sea”, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.
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Unwilling to travel to Stockholm, after two nearly fatal plan crashes , Hemingway asked John C. Cabot, the United States Ambassador to Sweden at the time, to read his acceptance speech. This acceptance speech is considered one of the best ever. That is what he wrote-
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Having no facility for speech-making and no command or narrator nor any domination of rhetoric. I wish to to thank the administrators of the generosity of Alfred Nobel for this Prize.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humanity. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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It would be impossible for me to ask the Ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are in his heart. Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate, but eventually, they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and notspeak it. Again, I thank you.
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Fact | Opinion | Strategies you used to separate facts and opinions | How the writerâs opinions influences your feelings/ opinions/ thoughts |
The 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American Authos Ernerst Hemingway (1899-1961) | Organizations for writers palliate the writerâs loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. | The writer used âI doubtâ which means the writer has shared his own opinion. | The writerâs opinion has positively influenced my thoughts. |
Unwilling to travel, after two nearly fatal plane crashes, Hemingway asked John C. Cabot, the Ambassador to Sweden at the time to read his acceptance speech. | It would be impossible for me to ask the Ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are in his heart. | The writer has used-âIt would be impossibleâ to express doubt. It means the writer has shared his own opinion. | The writerâs opinion has made me realize that oneâs emotions and thoughts may not be easily conveyed through someone elseâs voice. |