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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before, and not too damned much after.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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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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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
Ernest Hemingway
I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
Ernest Hemingway
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
Ernest Hemingway
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
Ernest Hemingway
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
Ernest Hemingway
If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
Ernest Hemingway
