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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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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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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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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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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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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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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 hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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War is not won by victory.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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