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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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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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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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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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I am always in love.
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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