Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
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While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
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Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.
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I don't curse on stage, but I feel like I curse more because I have kids and in front of my kids. Not intentionally.
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In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
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The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
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Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
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We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
