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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Abolition Both Complete Disputes Few Foe Friend International Know Living Long Me Men Method More Nothing Now Other Rendered Settling Useless Very War

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After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: After Book Dead Finish Irresponsibility Know Knows Responsibility See Terrible Writing You

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When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Badly Boy First First Time Get Go Great Happen Illusion Immortality Know Lose Other People Then Time War Wounded You

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Caricature Character Characters Create Living Novel People Should Writer Writing

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Become Death Greatest Greatest Pleasure Major Once Only Pleasure Stop Vice Writing Your

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Book Funny Got Lot Man Punishment Really Take Write

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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Alcohol Down Flame Go Idea Little Low Stove Then Turn Were Will

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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Architecture Brown Built Clock Country Cuckoo Down Hotels Large More Much Over Sideways Small Steep Stuck Style Switzerland Than Up Up And Down

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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Fighting Fine Hate Leave Much Place Very World Worth

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Best Better Good Good Luck Long Long Time Luck Now Simply Sometimes Than Time Tried Write I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 21st, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1961

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