Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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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 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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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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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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A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.
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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
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My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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Write hard and clear about what hurts.
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I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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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.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.
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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.
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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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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.