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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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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 worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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A cat has absolute honesty.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
Ernest Hemingway -
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
Ernest Hemingway