Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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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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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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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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We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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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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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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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.