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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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