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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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War is not won by victory.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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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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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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