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Ernest Hemingway Quotes: A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
         

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.


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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.



Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.



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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.



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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.



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