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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: drinking
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: attributed-no-source, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: trust, truth
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: action, progress
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: humility, self-improvement
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: cats
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writers, writing-advice
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: on-writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: writing-life
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: words
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
    tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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