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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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The writer's job is to tell the truth.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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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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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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War is not won by victory.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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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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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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