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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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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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The bulls are my best friends. I translated to Brett. You kill your friends? she asked. Always, he said in English, and laughed. So they don't kill me.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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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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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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