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A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

~Ernest Hemingway

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

~Ernest Hemingway

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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

~Ernest Hemingway

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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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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

~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

Topics: About Any Doubt Half Half The Time He Never Right Time Were Wrong You

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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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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

~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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1961

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