Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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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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Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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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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The only decent bone in her body was mine.
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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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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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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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I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.
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Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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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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The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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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.