Ernest Miller Hemingway

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"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."	Hope, Wishing, Writing
"You lose it if you talk about it."	Miscellaneous
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."	Excellence, Learning
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."	Ability, Age, Death
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."	Character, Life, Writing
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Humor, Life, Men
"Courage is grace under pressure."	Age, Courage
"'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood."	Miscellaneous
"There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which."	Knowledge, Life, Wisdom
"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent."	Ability, Talent, Writing
"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want."	Desires, Honesty, Knowledge
"Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you."	Men, Power
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."	Change, Intelligence, Men
"The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits."	Age, Men, Monarchy
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."	Men, Military, Strength
"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."	Argument, Art, Conflict
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."	Education, School, Teaching
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."	Happiness, Intelligence, Joy
"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self."	Honesty, Men, Truth
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Joy	Knowledge	Learning
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Wants	War	Wisdom
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