Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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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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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
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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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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
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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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I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.
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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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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.