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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 The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most.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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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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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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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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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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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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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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We wait always for something that does not come.
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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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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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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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