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If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?


Ernest Hemingway

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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