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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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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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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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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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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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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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