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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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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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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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