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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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 better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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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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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips they were closed tight.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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