Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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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That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.
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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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I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
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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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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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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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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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Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.
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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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All thinking men are atheists.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.