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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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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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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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