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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

Ernest Hemingway
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"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Ernest Hemingway
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"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

Ernest Hemingway
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Ernest Hemingway
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"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."

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"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

Ernest Hemingway
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

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"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

Ernest Hemingway
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"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

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"When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you."

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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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"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

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