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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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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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