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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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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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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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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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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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