The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.


Ernest Hemingway

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again afte...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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...
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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
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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?
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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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