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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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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
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