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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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Not the why but the what.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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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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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
Ernest Hemingway
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
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