Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
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A cat has absolute honesty.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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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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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
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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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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.
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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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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.