Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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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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I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.
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Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
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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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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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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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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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The best writing is certainly when you are in love
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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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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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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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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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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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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He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.
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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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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.
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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.