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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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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
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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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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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