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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced. In writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element of..
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What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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true-love
love
the-one
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Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
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war
wine
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some 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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Ernest Hemingway |
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He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Heresy is the foe of countenance
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I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this," he said. "Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now." Consider them said, he thought. I'll say them later."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I had gone...to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring. Suddenly to..
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Now we have done it. Now we really have done it." Yes, he thought. Now we have really done it. And when she went to sleep suddenly like a tired young girl and lay beside him lovely in the moonlight that showed the beautiful new strange line of her head as she slept on her side he leaned over and said to her but not aloud, "I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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In the morning I walked down the Boulevard to the rue Soufflot for coffee and brioche. It was a fine morning. The horse-chestnut trees in the Luxembourg gardens were in bloom. There was the pleasant early-morning feeling of a hot day. I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette. The flower-women were coming up from the market and arranging their daily stock. Students went by going up to the law school, or down to the Sorbo..
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Ernest Hemingway |
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In that way they really were friends, understanding in their basic disagreement, trusting in their complete distrust and enjoying one another's company.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You're remembering well today,' she said. 'Don't do it too much.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.
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war
live
people
enemy
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yn dstnh mtqDy ndrnd, wly rwzy anh r khwhnd fhmyd; hmn Twr khh bry nqshyh hm yn tfq myftd. fqT bh zmn Htyj st w `tmd bh nfs...
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Ernest Hemingway |
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if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it.
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writing
waiting
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He felt as though he were hailing a ship.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.
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wonder
law-of-nature
sea-life
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If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you.
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tourist
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He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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god
overrated
seventh
creativity
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Nobody likes to life anchors.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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However you make your living is where your talent lies
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Ernest Hemingway |
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Because she had done the best she could for many years back and the way they were together now was no one person's fault.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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values
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I still need some 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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rest
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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. This may not be true but he had believed it to be t..
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loneliness
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Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.
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truth
good-writing
life-experience
storytelling
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I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt. "Don't be childish, darling." "I hope to Christ I am. Don't be childish yourself." It is possible to be grateful that no one that you would willingly associate with you say, "Be mature. Be well-balanced, be well-adjusted." Africa, being as old as it is, makes all people except the professional invaders and..
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childish
children
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He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes. He had flashes of the old greatness with his bulls, but they were not of value because he had discounted them in advance when he had picked the bulls out for their safety, getting out of a motor and leaning on a fence, looking over at the herd on the ranch of his friend the bull-breeder. So he had two small, manageable bulls withou..
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was a 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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Ernest Hemingway |
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If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
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