Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.
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Look at things and listen and feel.
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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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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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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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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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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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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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But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope).
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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
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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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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.