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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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