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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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