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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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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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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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Write drunk edit sober.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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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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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Before you quit, you have to try
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
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