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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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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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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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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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