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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
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 whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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