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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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 would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Write drunk edit sober.
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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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