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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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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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A bottle of wine was good company.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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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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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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