All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

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

—Ernest Hemingway

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

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

—Edith Sitwell

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book…

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

—Dorothy Parker

Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life… to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

—Dave Kellett

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