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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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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky he thought
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again. Hell, I said, I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me? Yes. I want to ruin you. Good, I said. That's what I want too.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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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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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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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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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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