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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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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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Never mistake motive for action.
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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