Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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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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I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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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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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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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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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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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.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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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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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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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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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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Isn't it pretty to think so.