Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).
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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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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
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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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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
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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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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.
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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
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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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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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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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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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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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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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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well
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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.