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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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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
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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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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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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.
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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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