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Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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