You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.


Ernest Hemingway

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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...
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It was a pleasant caf
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun...
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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.
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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
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By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ...
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin...
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Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio...
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
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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 dist...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b...
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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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 ...
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As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
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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...
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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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...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
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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.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w...
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Never mistake motion for action.
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni...
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go...
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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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.
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The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
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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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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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