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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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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
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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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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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