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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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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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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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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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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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War is not won by victory.
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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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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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