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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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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 distinguish one man from another.
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What did I know best that I had not written about and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you?
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Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
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Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
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Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things
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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
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I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
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You're beautiful, like a May fly.
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The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
Ernest Hemingway
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