Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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In those days, there was no money to buy books.
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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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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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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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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
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Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
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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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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.