Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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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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One cat just leads to another.
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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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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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Time is the least thing we have.
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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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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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
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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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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
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I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
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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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To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
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I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.