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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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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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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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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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