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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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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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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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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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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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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