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Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961 · Novelist, War Correspondent
Hemingway survived two plane crashes, multiple wars, and a life lived at full throttle, then wrote about it in prose stripped down to the bone. He believed courage was grace under pressure, and he spent his life testing that theory.
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VIR-I-0011“I walked away from something dishonest even though it would have helped me.”CTL-VIII-0013“I said something I shouldn't have and I can't take it back.”CTL-VII-0015“I've been chasing approval my whole life and I'm exhausted.”DTH-XII-0005“I told someone I loved them and meant every word.”DTH-XI-0005“I'm angry that someone died. I feel cheated.”DTH-X-0013“I survived something that should have killed me.”APX-VI-0022“The marriage ended and I'm still living inside who did what to whom.”APX-IV-0043“I keep undercharging because asking for real money feels like arrogance.”CTL-VIII-0032“I'm in the best creative run of my life and I want to protect it.”CTL-VIII-0033“I got rejected and my mind is spiraling into a story about how I'm worthless.”CTL-IX-0043“I said yes to everything again and now I'm buried and resentful.”DTH-XI-0033“My dog died and people act like I'm overreacting to grieve this hard.”
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