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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are merely games.
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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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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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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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