Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.
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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 hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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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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War is not won by victory.
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The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.
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Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
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Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
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At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
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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.
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.