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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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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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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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[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 is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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Never mistake motive for action.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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