Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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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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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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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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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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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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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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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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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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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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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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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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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 might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
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How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!