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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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