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You're beautiful, like a May fly.

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 real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
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