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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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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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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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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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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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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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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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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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