Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.
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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
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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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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union.
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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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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.