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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.
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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.
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Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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No that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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