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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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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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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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