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0484d29	And pain does not matter to a man.	Ernest Hemingway
5c5783c	You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.	Ernest Hemingway
8571a8e	I wish I had the boy.	Ernest Hemingway
deba656	I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.	Ernest Hemingway
e7b8d52	You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? 'You think too much, old man' he said aloud.	Ernest Hemingway
6fcc12b	I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.	Ernest Hemingway
767bc2e	When people are talking listen completely. Don't be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was	Ernest Hemingway
a32ed01	Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die."	Ernest Hemingway
b592993	Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast."	Ernest Hemingway
e1a8264	I have tried to write by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.	Ernest Hemingway
ec2134a	I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it."	Ernest Hemingway
c800173	Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.	Ernest Hemingway
b8a2791	He grinned with his hat on the back of his head. He looked more like a Broadway character of the Nineties than the lovely painter that he was, and afterwards, when he had hanged himself, I liked to remember him as he was that night at the Dome. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.	Ernest Hemingway
8a1661a	Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady	Ernest Hemingway
e3ad2e0	A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.	Ernest Hemingway
c7686bc	That Muretto di Alassio by Mario Berrino is a beautiful color film.	Ernest Hemingway
ce4fc39	In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.	Ernest Hemingway
733ef12	However you make your living is where your talent lies.	Ernest Hemingway
2c67601	For our dead are a part of the earth of Spain now and the earth of Spain can never die.	Ernest Hemingway
a4aa94b	Go tell Mike Gold, Ernest Hemingway says he should go fuck himself.	Ernest Hemingway
35b3dcd	All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.	Ernest Hemingway
dbaad1f	Easy writing makes hard reading.	Ernest Hemingway
ba12b73	Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.	Ernest Hemingway
eed7b8a	We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.	Ernest Hemingway
4aeaf03	You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.	Ernest Hemingway
f0c4b32	You're beautiful, like a May fly.	Ernest Hemingway
4b121b3	Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!	Ernest Hemingway
962fdfe	A bottle of wine was good company.	Ernest Hemingway
bbd7e4a	All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.	Ernest Hemingway
6ae57f7	Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.	Ernest Hemingway
23e8dca	Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.	Ernest Hemingway
0cb42a7	T]he rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.	Ernest Hemingway
45da3a8	He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.	Ernest Hemingway
3827ccd	That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.	Ernest Hemingway
a989b19	Every day above earth is a good day.	Ernest Hemingway
d6aa3f7	Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.	Ernest Hemingway
ffbbf73	Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.	Ernest Hemingway
f9b9bb9	'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.'	Ernest Hemingway
03513f6	A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.	Ernest Hemingway
5407d05	Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.	Ernest Hemingway
b5173d6	Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.	Ernest Hemingway
e928b5b	All things truly wicked start from an innocence.	Ernest Hemingway
a20c919	Never confuse movement with action.	Ernest Hemingway
880eac8	Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.	Ernest Hemingway

And pain does not matter to a man.

Ernest Hemingway

5c5783c

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.

Ernest Hemingway

8571a8e

I wish I had the boy.

Ernest Hemingway

deba656

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.

Ernest Hemingway

e7b8d52

You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? 'You think too much, old man' he said aloud.

Ernest Hemingway

6fcc12b

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

Ernest Hemingway

767bc2e

When people are talking listen completely. Don't be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was

Ernest Hemingway

a32ed01

Fight them," he said. "I'll fight them until I die."

Ernest Hemingway

b592993

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast."

Ernest Hemingway

e1a8264

I have tried to write by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

Ernest Hemingway

ec2134a

I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it."

Ernest Hemingway

c800173

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

Ernest Hemingway

b8a2791

He grinned with his hat on the back of his head. He looked more like a Broadway character of the Nineties than the lovely painter that he was, and afterwards, when he had hanged himself, I liked to remember him as he was that night at the Dome. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway

8a1661a

Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady