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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
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No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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