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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
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 am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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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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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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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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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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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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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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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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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips they were closed tight.
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