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Remember, everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - "You think so?" - "I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then"
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don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers
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He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
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simplicity
pride
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I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
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I heard them laugh. I turned off the light and tried to go to sleep. It was not necessary to read any more. I could shut my eyes without getting the wheeling sensation. But i could not sleep. There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. The hell there isn't! I figured that all out once, and for six months I never slept with the electric light off. That was another bright idea. To hel..
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She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...
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I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.
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women
church
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The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.
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When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet,..
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It's a bore," he said out loud. "What is, my dear?" "Anything you do too bloody long."
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I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.
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out-of-season
in-our-time
hemingway
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And that was the end of the beginning of that
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I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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writing
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Ernest Hemingway |
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
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time
life
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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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He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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When she cried her whole face went to pieces.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.
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let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him."
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love
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This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to despise whatever bad ending there could be. This quality was destroyed by too much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking something ill planned or badly conceived. For in such things the bad ending, failure, could not be ignored. It was not simply a possibility of harm to one's self, which be ignored. He knew he..
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war
for-whom-the-bell-tolls
ernest-hemingway
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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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Ernest Hemingway |
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They are strong," David said. "But there's a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
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writing
dostoyevsky
hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway |
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If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musee du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cezannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I ..
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museums
ernest-hemingway
france
paris
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All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already. Now, looking out the tunnel of trees over the ravine at the sky with white clouds moving across in the wind, I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never h..
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you when you traveled too, and in the mountains where we lived in Switzerland and Italy, until we found Schruns in the high valley in the Vorarlberg in Austria, there were always the books, so that ..
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travel
reading
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To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
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sleeping-at-night
night
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Ernest Hemingway |
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But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes."
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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penitentiary
reform-school
the-last-good-country
nick-adams
maturity
growing-up
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to; we never did such things.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
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catharsis
river
obligation
release
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Ernest Hemingway |
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You ought to dream.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
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wounded
doctors
practice
fail
wound
medicine
hospital
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But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.
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Ernest Hemingway |
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In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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poor
paris
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