Ernest Hemingway Quotes

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ernest Hemingway

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• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

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• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

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• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

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• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

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• I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

  

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• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  

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• Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

  

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

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• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

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• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

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• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

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• If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

  

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• Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Should
  • Born
  • Boat