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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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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
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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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Hunger is good discipline.
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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Work could cure almost anything
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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