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If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

― Ernest Hemingway

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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

- Ernest Hemingway

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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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"Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged."

-Ernest Hemingway

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

-Ernest Hemingway

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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

-Ernest Hemingway

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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

-Ernest Hemingway

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

-Ernest Hemingway

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

-Ernest Hemingway

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

-Ernest Hemingway

Yeah, but good luck getting a book to go your bail...
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

― Ernest Hemingway

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The editor of this anthology, who took part and was wounded in the last war to end war, hates war and hates all the politicians whose mismanagement, gullibility, cupidity, selfishness, and ambition brought on this present war and made it inevitable. But once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in a war.

-Ernest Hemingway

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The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are stronger at the broken places.

-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms