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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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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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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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