Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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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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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
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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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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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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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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 two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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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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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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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.
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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
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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.