Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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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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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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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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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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There are worse places to be than on your own.
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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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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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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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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.