Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.
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The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey
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I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.