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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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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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Man is not made for defeat.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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Not the why but the what.
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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