Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
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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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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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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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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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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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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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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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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.
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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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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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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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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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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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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
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The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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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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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?
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I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
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I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
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It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.