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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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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky he thought
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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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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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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Write drunk edit sober.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
Worry destroys the ability to write.
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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
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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 love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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