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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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 didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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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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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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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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