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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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 bulls are my best friends. I translated to Brett. You kill your friends? she asked. Always, he said in English, and laughed. So they don't kill me.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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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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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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Write drunk edit sober.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
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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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