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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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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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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
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A bottle of wine was good company.
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again. Hell, I said, I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me? Yes. I want to ruin you. Good, I said. That's what I want too.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
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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.
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'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'
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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
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The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there.
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
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The smallest coffins are the heaviest.
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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.
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No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.
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