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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

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 telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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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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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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