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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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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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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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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
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