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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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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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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
Ernest Hemingway
And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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.
Ernest Hemingway
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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