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How little we know of what there is to know.

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 fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
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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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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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