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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.
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 fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky he thought
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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Never confuse movement with action.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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