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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
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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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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway
Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
Ernest Hemingway
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
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