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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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 great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before, and not too damned much after.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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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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Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
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Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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