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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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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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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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