Ernest Hemingway Quotes
When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
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Jesus Christ used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.
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In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
