Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.
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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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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
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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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All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.
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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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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
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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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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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Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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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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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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The first draft of anything is sh*t.