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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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Ernest Miller Hemmingway
E. M. Hemmingway
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Ernest M. Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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