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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.

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
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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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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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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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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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