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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Wine is a grand thing, I said. It makes you forget all the bad.
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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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