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Ernest Hemingway

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“Courage is grace under pressure.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”— Ernest Hemingway
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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.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”— Ernest Hemingway
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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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“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“Writing and travel broaden your a-s if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”— Ernest Hemingway
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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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“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”— Ernest Hemingway