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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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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
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The only kind of writing is rewriting.
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You've such a lovely temperature.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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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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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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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 only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips they were closed tight.
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