Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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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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Not the why but the what.
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All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
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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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Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
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I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.
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Man is not made for defeat.
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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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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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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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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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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
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We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.
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And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
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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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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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No one ever stopped when they were winning.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.