Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.
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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
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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 don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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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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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.