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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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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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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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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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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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