"I always worked until I had something..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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“The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
“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.”
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“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”
“True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.”
“I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.”