Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Religion is the opium of the poor.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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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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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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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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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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There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
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When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
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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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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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Live it up so you can write it down.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
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Write drunk; edit sober.