Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.
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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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You never understand anybody that loves you.
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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
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I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
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The only decent bone in her body was mine.
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We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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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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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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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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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.