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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?
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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded 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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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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Never confuse motions with action.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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