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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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 could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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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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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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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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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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