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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.
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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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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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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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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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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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