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Never mistake motive for action.

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Journalist
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Ernest Miller Hemmingway
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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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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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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