Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.
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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
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The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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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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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
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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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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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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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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
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When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.