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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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Oh Jake, Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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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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