Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.
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Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
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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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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.
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Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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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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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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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.
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.