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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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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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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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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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But did thee feel the earth move?
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
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