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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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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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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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