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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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