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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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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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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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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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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before, and not too damned much after.
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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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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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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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Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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