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I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.


Ernest Borgnine

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
ERNEST BRAMAH Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
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