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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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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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