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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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