Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
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God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
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I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
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Write drunk; edit sober.
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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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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg
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I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.