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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
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Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
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How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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Fish, the old man said. Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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The bulls are my best friends. I translated to Brett. You kill your friends? she asked. Always, he said in English, and laughed. So they don't kill me.
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The writer's job is to tell the truth.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
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Never mistake movement for action
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Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
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The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.
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There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.
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