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Ernest Hemingway Inspirational Quotes (480)

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
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She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
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The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
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Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
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I believe that basically you write for two people yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
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What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.
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We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.
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We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
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Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
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I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.
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I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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But did thee feel the earth move?
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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
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