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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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 do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before, and not too damned much after.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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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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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.
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