Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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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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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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You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
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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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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
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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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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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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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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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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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It's a town you come to for a short time.
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And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.
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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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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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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.