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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
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A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.
Ernest Hemingway
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
Ernest Hemingway -
it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
Ernest Hemingway -
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway -
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway
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Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway -
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
Ernest Hemingway -
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway -
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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Work could cure almost anything
Ernest Hemingway
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
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It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
Ernest Hemingway -
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway