Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.
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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
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The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.