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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
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(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
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Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
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You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.
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All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
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I drink to make other people more interesting.
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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.
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In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.
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Work could cure almost anything
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How little we know of what there is to know.
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One cat just leads to another. [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
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I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
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