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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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 way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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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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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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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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Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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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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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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