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“Stacy Keach was marvelous. He looked more like my father than anyone who had ever played him before.”

Jack Hemingway

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I'm not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.

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People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm lazy or…

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I know he wanted me to love fishing and hunting, and I believe that he deliberately set about to make me want to do…

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At the time of his death and the few years before, I was just starting to pull myself together and make a reasonably good…

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He's never portrayed as being funny. He was a very funny, happy, lively person. Fun to be around and exciting. He was my hero.

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My mother, along with Papa's other eventual wives - Pauline, Marty Gelhorn, Mary Welch - they all, at one time or another, no matter how angry they were at him at the moment, said, 'Look, Papa is special. He writes so beautifully. We have to let this go on.'

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It's hard to think of your parents as lovers. You know you got here somehow, but it's hard to visualize.

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I wanted to write a book about Hemingway's Paris, but a professor beat me to it. I suddenly realized other people were making a…

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I was proud of Papa for his sports.

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He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well.…

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My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other…

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Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.

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(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't…

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“My father called twice and left a voicemail—who does that?”

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I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world.

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The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,…

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