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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
Ernest Hemingway
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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).
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As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
Ernest Hemingway
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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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All bad writers are in love with the epic.
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You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.
Ernest Hemingway