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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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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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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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