Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

—Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six...

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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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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

—Ernest Hemingway

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

—Ernest Hemingway

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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

—Ernest Hemingway

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

—Ernest Hemingway

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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

—Ellen Glasgow

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

—Edith Wharton

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old—many, many people do not have that privilege.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

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