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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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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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War is not won by victory.
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Never mistake motion for action.
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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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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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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I am like a blind pig when I work.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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