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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway
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And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
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It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. 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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There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
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I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky he thought
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
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I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
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No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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