Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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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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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
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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 fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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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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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
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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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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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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
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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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For what are we born if not to aid one another?
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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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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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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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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This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.