Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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 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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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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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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The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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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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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had 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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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
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However you make your living is where your talent lies.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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War is not won by victory.
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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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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!