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From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Alive All Things Anything Cannot Enough Exist Give Happened Immortality Invention Know Make New New Thing Representation Something Than Thing Things Those Through True Truer Well Well Enough Whole You Your

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The shortest answer is doing the thing.

~Ernest Hemingway

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Man is not made for defeat.

~Ernest Hemingway

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

~Ernest Hemingway

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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

~Ernest Hemingway

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You're beautiful, like a May fly.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Beautiful Fly Like May You

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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

~Ernest Hemingway

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

~Ernest Hemingway

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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Bird Birds Different Different Ways First Fly Flying Good Last Same Sensation Shot Ways You

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

~Ernest Hemingway

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1961

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