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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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 fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky he thought
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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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When you have a child, the world has a hostage.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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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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