Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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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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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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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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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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Man is not made for defeat.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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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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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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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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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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Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
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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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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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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.