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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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