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Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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I am always in love.
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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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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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