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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
Ernest Hemingway
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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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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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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