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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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 fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky he thought
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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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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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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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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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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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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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