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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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 best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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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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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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