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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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