Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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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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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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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 think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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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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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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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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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
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I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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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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No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.