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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.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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I am always in love.
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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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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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
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