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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participa

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway

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All my life Ive looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. – Ernest Hemingway

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. – Bjorn Borg

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Rugby is great. The players dont wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. – Joe Theismann

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