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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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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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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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A bottle of wine was good company.
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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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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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Never confuse motions with action.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
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