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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.
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I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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You'll lose it, if you talk about it
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You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.
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