QUOTES by Ernest Hemingway
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"Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective"
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"I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink."
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"I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight."
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
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"I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
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"Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre."
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"I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success."
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a"
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
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"We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it"
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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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"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."
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"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
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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."
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"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
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"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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"It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"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."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Quote by -Ernest Hemingway
"It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings."
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"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."
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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
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"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
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"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
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"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
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