Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
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I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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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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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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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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I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
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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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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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A cat has absolute honesty.
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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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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
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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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I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.
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He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.
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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.