Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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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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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
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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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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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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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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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The best writing is certainly when you are in love
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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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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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
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Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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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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For what are we born if not to aid one another?
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.