Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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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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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
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The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
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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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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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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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If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.
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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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And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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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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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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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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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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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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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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Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.