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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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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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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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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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