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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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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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We wait always for something that does not come.
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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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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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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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