Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
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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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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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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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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
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So far, 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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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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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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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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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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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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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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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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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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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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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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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.