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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
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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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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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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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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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