Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
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Your blood coagulates beautifully.
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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
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He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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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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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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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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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.
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I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.