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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
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You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.
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