Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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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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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
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It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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The only decent bone in her body was mine.
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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
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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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But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.
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For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.