Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.