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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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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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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. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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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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