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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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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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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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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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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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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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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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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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I am always in love.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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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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