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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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 parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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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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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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Never confuse motions with action.
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