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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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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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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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